Adkins catalyst
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The Adkins catalyst is a copper chromite or copper chromium oxide catalyst used in the hydrogenation of ester compounds to the corresponding alcohols. For example, sebacion derived from an intramolecular acyloin condensation of dimethyl sebacate is hydrogenated to 1,2-cyclodecanediol by this catalyst at high hydrogen gas pressure (135 atm) and 150 °C in a so-called hydrogenation bomb. Phenanthrene is also reduced, at the 9,10 position.
The technology was developed by Homer Burton Adkins partly based on interrogation of German chemists after World War II in relation to the Fischer-Tropsch process.
[edit] External links
- 1,2-cyclodecanediol A. T. Blomquist and Albert Goldstein Organic Syntheses Coll. Vol. 4, p.216; Vol. 36, p.12 Article
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- Fischer-Tropsch Archive
[edit] References
- ↑ The Copper-Chromium Oxide Catalyst for Hydrogenation Homer Adkins, Edward E. Burgoyne, Henry J. Schneider J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 1950; 72(6); 2626-2629. First Page
- ↑ CAS registry [7440-47-3] & [1317-38-0]
