Dehydrogenation of Butan-2-ol into Methyl Ethyl Ketone

2 Dehydrogenation of Butan-2-ol into Methyl Ethyl Ketone [85] 

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Several adatoms effects were observed, with various reactions. This effect can usually be depicted as poisoning of undesirable sites, resulting simultaneously in a decrease of the global catalytic activity and in a significant increase of the selectivities for the desired products. We describe here three examples, the hydrogenation of a, -unsaturated aldehydes (the same reaction as above but now in the presence of a very small amount of tin), the isomerization of 3-carene into 2-carene, and the dehydrogenation of butan-2-ol into methyl ethyl ketone. 

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