ACS Catalysis

Selective Hydrogenation of Crotonaldehyde to Crotyl Alcohol over Metal Oxide Modified Ir Catalysts and Mechanistic Insight

…, K Tokonami, Y Nakagawa, K Tomishige

Index: Tamura, Masazumi; Tokonami, Kensuke; Nakagawa, Yoshinao; Tomishige, Keiichi Chemical Communications, 2013 , vol. 49, # 63 p. 7034 - 7036

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Abstract

The scope of metal oxide modified noble metal (M+ M′ O x) catalysts was scrutinized in the hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde to crotyl alcohol as a model reaction under mild reaction conditions (303 K, 0.8 MPa, water solvent), demonstrating that MoO x, WO x, NbO x, FeO x and ReO x are effective metal oxides for Ir/SiO2 to enhance both the activity and selectivity, although the optimized (metal oxide)/(Ir metal) molar ratio depends on the metal oxide. ...