Ethylene oxycyanation

Hydrides on the palladium are continually removed as water by oxygen present no redox component is necessary. However, other oxidizing components were included in heterogeneous catalysts for the uncommercialized oxidation (Pd-phosphomolybdate) and oxycyanation (olefin/HCN/02 over Pd-vanadia) of ethylene to acetaldehyde (ethanal)/acetic (ethanoic) acid and acrylonitrile (propenonitrile) respectively. 

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