Vapor-phase catalytic reactions of several terminal diols were investigated over several rare earth oxides, such as Sc2O3, Y2O3, CeO2, Yb2O3, and Lu2O3. Sc2O3 showed selective catalytic activity in the dehydration of terminal diols with long carbon chain, such as 1, 6- hexanediol, 1, 7-heptanediol, 1, 8-octanediol, 1, 9-nonanediol, 1, 10-decanediol, and 1, 12- dodecanediol, to produce the corresponding unsaturated alcohols. In the dehydration of 1, ...
[Cooper, Harriet L. R.; Mishra, Girish; Huang, Xiongyi; Pender-Cudlip, Marilla; Austin, Rachel N.; Shanklin, John; Groves, John T. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012 , vol. 134, # 50 p. 20365 - 20375]
