Methyl selective oxidation with chromium

A further variant of Method B is the conversion of the readily available aryl(2-methyl-aminoaryl)methanols 16 into the chloroacelyl derivatives 17, followed by oxidation to Ihe benzophenones 18 with chromium(VI) oxide. The products are transformed into benzodi-azepinones by treatment with sodium iodide and ammonium carbonate (Method D). Selected... 

The hydrogenation of fatty acids or fatty esters is of industrial importance for the production of fatty alcohols. Usually, the hydrogenation is performed in slurry-phase or fixed-bed reactors over copper-chromium oxide catalyst at elevated temperature and pressure.37 Rieke et al. investigated the hydrogenation of methyl dodecanoate over copper-chromium oxide at 280°C and 13.8 MPa H2, in order to study the side reactions that occur during hydrogenation.37 On the basis of the potential reaction routes described by Rieke et al., the pathways leading to C12 alcohol and various byproducts are summarized in Scheme 10.2, with exclusion of the formation and reactions of acetals. It has been found that both catalytic activity and selectivity correlated well with the crystallinity of the copper-chromium ox-... 

Thus, in general catalytic oxidations with molecular oxygen are not applicable to more complicated, less volatile molecules. For reactions in the liquid phase catalytic oxygen transfer constitutes a useful alternative that combines the advantages of stoichiometric oxidants (high selectivities and broad scope) with those of catalytic oxidation with 02 (inexpensive reagent and environmentally acceptable) [3,4], A reaction of commercial interest, to illustrate the point, is the oxidation of 2-methylnaphthalene to 2-methyl-l,4-naphthoquinone (menadione), an intermediate for vitamin K. Traditionally this oxidation was carried out with stoichiometric quantities of chromium trioxide in sulfuric acid and produced 18 kg... 

The significant difference between the TOP and selectivity of bulk metal molybdates and vanadates compared with pure metal oxides was a key factor in uncovering the true surface composition of those bulk catalysts. Table 11.3 and Table 11.4 show the number of surface active sites, redox TOP, and selectivity toward methanol selective oxidation products of bulk metal vanadates and the corresponding metal oxide, respectively. Similar results were obtained for bulk metal molybdates. Bulk metal vanadates possess a high selectivity to formaldehyde with some selectivity to dimethoxy methane (nickel vanadate), dimethyl ether (niobium, chromium, and aluminum vanadates), methyl formate (magnesium, chromium, and copper vanadates), and CO2 (niobium and silver vanadates). 

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