Catalysts benzene

The detailed study of chemical composition, stmcture, surface, shape and sizes of particles of fine-dispersed zeolite powder by EPMA will provide useful recommendations to improve the technology of producing alkanes and alkyl benzenes catalysts. 

The catalysts having the initial form of Co(acac)3 were recovered after the decomposition of peracrylic acid in benzene and dimethyl sulfoxide solution the catalyst recovered from benzene (catalyst B) could hardly be separated from the polymers, indicating a chemical bond between the catalyst and polymers. On the other hand, the catalyst from... 

Reduction. Benzene can be reduced to cyclohexane [110-82-7], C5H12, or cycloolefins. At room temperature and ordinary pressure, benzene, either alone or in hydrocarbon solvents, is quantitatively reduced to cyclohexane with hydrogen and nickel or cobalt (14) catalysts. Catalytic vapor-phase hydrogenation of benzene is readily accomplished at about 200°C with nickel catalysts. Nickel or platinum catalysts are deactivated by the presence of sulfur-containing impurities in the benzene and these metals should only be used with thiophene-free benzene. Catalysts less active and less sensitive to sulfur, such as molybdenum oxide or sulfide, can be used when benzene is contaminated with sulfur-containing impurities. Benzene is reduced to 1,4-cydohexadiene [628-41-1], C6HS, with alkali metals in liquid ammonia solution in the presence of alcohols (15). 

Catalyst Styrene Benzene Catalyst Styrene Benzene ... 

Hydrogenation of carbocyclic aromatic compounds requires only mild conditions over Rh catalysts. Rhodium is an outstandingly active catalyst for reduction of benzene. Catalyst efficiency is influenced by trace materials that act as inhibitors or promoters. Hydrogen halides are strong inhibitor for reductions in MeOH over Rh-on-carbon or on alumina. Small amounts of acetic acid promote reduction of aromatics over Rh-on-alumina. In a clean medium, 5% Rh-on-carbon or Rh-on-alumina in MeOH reduces alkyl benzenes at room temperature, under 500 kPa . Reaction is facilitated at higher T or by adding glacial acetic acid. 

Catalysts were evaluated for continuous flow activity at 200°C in a tubular reactor of 19 mm internal diameter and 1000 mm height. Prior to reaction, the catalyst was reduced in hydrogen at 250°C for 3 hours. H2/C6H6 mole ratio was maintained at 5.6 and LHSV(benzene) at 1.0 during the reaction. From the inlet and outlet concentrations of benzene, catalyst activity was estimated as percentage conversion of benzene to cyclohexane. 

Table 14J2. Different supports for maleic anhydride from benzene catalyst.

Moles of Benzene Catalyst (moles) Temperature, °C. Time Ihuducts (% Yield) Reference ... 

The most widely used reactions are those of electrophilic substitution, and under controlled conditions a maximum of three substituting groups, e.g. -NO2 (in the 1,3,5 positions) can be introduced by a nitric acid/sul-phuric acid mixture. Hot cone, sulphuric acid gives sulphonalion whilst halogens and a Lewis acid catalyst allow, e.g., chlorination or brom-ination. Other methods are required for introducing fluorine and iodine atoms. Benzene undergoes the Friedel-Crafts reaction. ... 

C, b.p. 81"C. Manufactured by the reduction of benzene with hydrogen in the presence of a nickel catalyst and recovered from natural gase.s. It is inflammable. Used as an intermediate in the preparation of nylon [6] and [66] via caprolactam and as a solvent for oils, fats and waxes, and also as a paint remover. For stereochemistry of cyclohexane see conformation. U.S. production 1980 1 megatonne. 

The o- and p-isomers are manufactured by the direct chlorination of benzene in the presence of iron as a catalyst, the resulting mixture being separated by fractional distillation. The w-isomer may be obtained by isomerization of the 0- or p-compound in the presence of a catalyst. 

Hydrogen bromide may also be prepared by dropping bromine into benzene containing aluminium powder, which acts as a catalyst to the reaction ... 

A halogen atom directly attached to a benzene ring is usually unreactive, unless it is activated by the nature and position of certain other substituent groups. It has been show n by Ullmann, however, that halogen atoms normally of low reactivity will condense with aromatic amines in the presence of an alkali carbonate (to absorb the hydrogen halide formed) and a trace of copper powder or oxide to act as a catalyst. This reaction, known as the Ullmant Condensation, is frequently used to prepare substituted diphenylamines it is exemplified... 

The formation of ethyl isopropylidene cyanoacetate is an example of the Knoevenagel reaction (see Discussion before Section IV,123). With higher ketones a mixture of ammonium acetate and acetic acid is an effective catalyst the water formed is removed by azeotropic distillation with benzene. The essential step in the reaction with aqueous potassium cyanide is the addition of the cyanide ion to the p-end of the ap-double bond ... 

The halogen carriers or aromatic halogenation catalysts are usually all electrophilic reagents (ferric and aluminium haUdes, etc.) and their function appears to be to increase the electrophilic activity of the halogen. Thus the mechanism for the bromination of benzene in the presence of iron can be repre-sfflited by the following scheme ... 

The catalyst is inactive for the hydrogenation of the (isolated) benzene nucleus and so may bo used for the hydrogenation of aromatic compounds containing aldehyde, keto, carbalkoxy or amide groups to the corresponding alcohols, amines, etc., e.g., ethyl benzoate to benzyl alcohol methyl p-toluate to p-methylbenzyl alcohol ethyl cinnamate to 3 phenyl 1-propanol. 

In a Lewis-acid catalysed Diels-Alder reaction, the first step is coordination of the catalyst to a Lewis-basic site of the reactant. In a typical catalysed Diels-Alder reaction, the carbonyl oxygen of the dienophile coordinates to the Lewis acid. The most common solvents for these processes are inert apolar liquids such as dichloromethane or benzene. Protic solvents, and water in particular, are avoided because of their strong interactions wifti the catalyst and the reacting system. Interestingly, for other catalysed reactions such as hydroformylations the same solvents do not give problems. This paradox is a result of the difference in hardness of the reactants and the catalyst involved... 

This is a way to do this procedure without having to use one of those crazy tube furnaces stuffed with thorium oxide or manganous oxide catalyst [21]. The key here is to use an excess of acetic anhydride. Using even more than the amount specified will insure that the reaction proceeds in the right direction and the bad side reaction formation of dibenzylketone will be minimalized (don t ask). 18g piperonylic acid or 13.6g phenylacetic acid, 50mL acetic anhydride and 50mU pyridine are refluxed for 6 hours and the solvent removed by vacuum distillation. The remaining residue is taken up in benzene or ether, washed with 10% NaOH solution (discard the water layer), and vacuum distilled to get 8g P2P (56%). 

METHOD 8 Check this outi This uses benzene or 1,3-benzodioxole (forX) as the starting material [24]. This method is better suited for speed makers because the AICI3 catalyst can tear up that methylenedioxy ring structure of the X molecule precursor. Chloroacetone can be easily purchased. 

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