Petroleum Chemistry

Manufacture of C13 higher fatty acids from their esters by carbonylation of dodecene-1 in ionic liquid medium

AL Lapidus, OL Eliseev, TN Bondarenko, NH Chau

Index: Lapidus; Eliseev; Bondarenko; Chau Petroleum Chemistry, 2010 , vol. 50, # 6 p. 442 - 449

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Abstract

Abstract The effect of catalyst nature, temperature, acidity, promoters, and feedstock composition on dodecene-1 carbonylation in the presence of Pd compounds in an ionic liquid medium yielding higher fatty acid and their esters was studied. Palladium salts without phosphine ligands show high activity in tetrabutylammonium bromide. In systems of this kind, the catalyst is suspended in the reaction mass in the form of Pd particles with a size ...