Preparation platinum oxide

The well-known Adams platinum oxide can be prepared conveniently by the procedure of Adams et al. (2). Platinum oxides prepared in this way usually contain some traces of sodium, which in certain reactions can have an adverse effect. The sodium can be removed by washing with dilute acid (53). The Nishimuri catalyst (30% Pt, 70% Rh oxides) can be prepared by the same procedure as for platinum oxide or with variations from platinum and rhodium salts (64,65,66). This catalyst has much merit. It is usually most useful when hydrogenolysis is to be avoided (67,85,86). 

Commercial C.p. chloroplatinic acid varies somewhat in its purity. In this work that from the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis, was used and gave very satisfactory results. Since small amounts of impurities in the catalyst are important factors in the rate of reduction of certain types of compounds, this question of impurities in the chloroplatinic acid must be taken into account (Note 13). In a large proportion of the reductions studied, platinum oxide prepared from the chloroplatinic acid mentioned gave as good results as that from spectroscopically pure chloroplatinic acid made according to the directions of Wichers.1... 

Voorhees and Adams141 obtained an active platinum black from the platinum oxide prepared by fusing a mixture of chloroplatinic acid and sodium nitrate at 500-550°C. The platinum oxide is readily reduced to an active black with hydrogen in a solvent in the presence or absence of substrate. The platinum oxide-platinum black thus prepared has been shown to be very active in the hydrogenation of various organic compounds and is now widely used as Adams platinum oxide catalyst. Frampton et al. obtained a platinum oxide catalyst of reproducible activity by adding a dry powder of a mixture of 1 g of chloroplatinic acid and 9 g of sodium nitrate in its entirety to 100... 

Hydrocinnamic acid may also be prepared by the reduction of cinnamic acid with sodium and alcohol or with sodium amalgam or with hydrogen in the presence of Adams platinum oxide catalyst (Section 111,150) ... 

Dihydrocholesterol has been prepared by the reduction of cholestenone with sodium and amyl alcohoP and by the hydrogenation of cholesterol. In the presence of platinum black or platinum oxide, yields varying from 6.5 per cent to 40 per cent have been obtained in ether, acetone, ethyl acetate, and acetic acid. ... 

Ammonium chloroplatinate often can be used to advantage in place of chloroplatim c acid in the preparation of Adams catalyst. A mixture of 3 g. of ammonium chloroplatinate and 30 g. of sodium nitrate in a casserole or Pyrex beaker is heated gently at first until the rapid evolution of gas slackens and then more strongly until a temperature of 500° is reached. This operation requires about fifteen minutes and there is no spattering. The temperature is held at 500-520° for one-half hour and the mixture is then allowed to cool. The platinum oxide catalyst, collected in the usual way by extracting the soluble salts with water, weighs 1.5 g. and it is comparable in appearance and in activity to the material prepared from chloroplatinic acid. 

This procedure is particularly time-saving when scrap platinum or spent catalyst is used for the preparation of platinum oxide, for after conversion to chloroplatinic acid a purification is conveniently effected by precipitating the ammonium salt, and the direct fusion of this with sodium nitrate eliminates the tedious process of reconversion to chloroplatinic acid. Furthermore ammonium chloroplatinate is not hygroscopic and can he accurately weighed. The amount of catalyst obtained is almost exactly half the weight of the ammonium salt employed. 

Acetoxy-21-nor-5a-cholestan-20-one (73a) as well as the free alcohol (73b) react with methylmagnesium iodide to give a mixture of epimeric diols (74). After treatment with acetic anhydride and subsequent hydrogenation over reduced platinum oxide this mixture alfords 3j5-acetoxy-5oc-cholestane (75) which is identical with the natural product. This synthesis has been used to prepare the 21- C compound (75) in a total yield of 18... 

Dan and Henbesi (ii) demonslraied ihai ihe amount of salts remaining in platinum oxide catalysts had an important bearing on the hydrogenation-hydrogenolysis ratio of allylic functions. Hydrogenolysis is inhibited by salts remaining from the catalyst preparation or by salts such as sodium nitrite, cyanide, or hydroxide added later. 

The requisite intermediate, ethyl 4-dimethylaminocyclohexylcarboxylate is prepared as follows 33 g of ethyl p-aminobenzoate dissolved in 300 cc of absolute ethanol containing 16.B cc of concentrated hydrochloric acid is hydrogenated at 50 pounds hydrogen pressure in the presence of 2 g of platinum oxide. The theoretical quantity of hydrogen is absorbed in several hours, the catalyst removed by filtration and the filtrate concentrated to dryness in vacuo. The residue Is dissolved in water, made alkaline with ammonium hydroxide and extracted with chloroform. After removal of the solvent, the residual oil is distilled to yield ethyl 4-aminocyclohexylcarboxylate, boiling point 114°C to 117°C/10 mm. 

Butylcyclohexanol has been prepared from />-/-butylphenol by reduction under a variety of conditions.3 4 Winstein and Holness5 prepared the pure trans alcohol from the commercial alcohol by repeated crystallization of the acid phthalate followed by saponification of the pure trans ester. Eliel and Ro 6 obtained 4-f-butylcyclohexanol containing 91% of the trans isomer by lithium aluminum hydride reduction of the ketone. Iliickel and Kurz 7 reduced />-/-butylphenol with platinum oxide in acetic acid and then separated the isomers by column chromatography. 

If a considerable quantity of platinum oxide is desired it is more satisfactory to prepare several runs of the size indicated than one large run, since spattering and the evolution of gases make large amounts inconvenient to handle. The activity of the catalyst appeared in certain cases to decrease after standing for several weeks and therefore the oxide should preferably be prepared as required. 

In certain reductions it is an advantage to reduce the platinum oxide to platinum black by shaking with hydrogen in the presence of solvent only, before the substance to be reduced is added to the mixture. More often the catalyst is reduced in the presence of the substance to be reduced with aldehydes for example the platinum black is usually more finely divided and generally more active if prepared in presence of the aldehyde. 

Platinum oxide cluster anions [Pt O]- and [PtM02] have been prepared by the reaction of the bare metal cluster anions [Pt ]- with N20 and 02, respectively (255). These platinum oxide cluster anions will oxidize CO to C02 and produce [PtJ, which can be reoxidized by N20 or 02. Thus a cyclic catalytic system for the oxidation of CO by N20 or 02 is produced. 

Platinum oxide catalyst prepared by the method of K. Adams has recently come into use because it is very convenient to prepare and handle and at the same time has very high activity. When in use it is first reduced by hydrogen in the hydrogenation bulb to very finely divided platinum. 

Baumgarten, H. E. el al., J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 1957, 79, 3145 A procedure for preparing N-oxides is described which avoids formation of perox-yacetic acid. After prolonged treatment of the amine at 35-40°C with excess 30% hydrogen peroxide, excess of the latter is catalytically decomposed with platinum oxide. 

M. Morita, Y. Iwanaga, and Y. Matsuda, Anodic-oxidation of methanol at a gold-modified platinum electrocatalyst prepared by RE-sputtering on a glassy-carbon support, Electrichim. Acta 36, 947-951 (1991). 

In principle, molecular sieve carbons (MSC) can be achieved by the pyrolysis of thermosetting polymers such as polyvinylidene chloride, polyfurfuryl alcohol, cellulose, cellulose triacetate, polyacrylonitrile and phenol formaldehyde (Koresh 1980). An example is given by Trimm and Cooper (1970,1973) for the preparation of MSC (mixed with metallic compounds) for catalyst systems. A mixture of furfuryl alcohol, platinum oxide and formaldehyde was heated to 40°C and additional formaldehyde was added to ensure the... 

While the reduction of amides to aldehydes competes successfully with other synthetic routes leading to aldehydes, reduction of amides to alcohols is only exceptionally used for preparative purposes. One such example is the conversion of trifluoroacetamide to trifluoroethanol in 76.5% yield by catalytic hydrogenation over platinum oxide at 90° and 105 atm [7770]. 

An alternative method of synthesis consists of preparing (+) 2-aminobutanol (34.1.3) by redncing ethyl ester of L-2-aminobutyric acid hydrochloride with hydrogen nsing simnlta-neonsly Raney nickel and platinum oxide catalysts. This gives pure (+) 2-aminobutanol. Reacting this with 1,2-dichloroethane in the presence of sodium hydroxide gives the desired ethambutol (34.1.4) [16,17]. 

L-Mannitol has been prepared by the reduction of L-mannosaccharo-dilactone or L-mannose. By far the most convenient procedure is that used by Baer and Fischer for their preparation of L-glyceraldehyde by the oxidative cleavage of l,2 5,6-diisopropylidene-L-mannitol with lead tetraacetate. L-Arabinose was converted to L-mannonolactone by the cyanohydrin synthesis and this was hydrogenated over platinum oxide to the desired L-mannitol. High hydrogen pressures, rather than low as usually employed with this catalyst, were used. 

Reactions. w-Hydroxybenzoic acid affords a variety of products, depending on the catalyst and conditions employed. Catalytic reduction over platinum black or platinum oxide in alkaline solution gives 3-hydroxycyclohexanecarboxylic acid [22267-35-2]. Reduction of a warm aqueous solution over platinum oxide or over colloidal platinum yields cyclohexanecarboxylic acid. w-Hydroxybenzaldehyde can be prepared by reducing ///-hydroxybenzoic acid with sodium amalgam. Finally, reduction over Raney nickel gives cydohexanol. 

Dimethyl cw-hexahydrophthalate also may be prepared by a similar reduction of dimethyl m-A -tetrahydrophthalate. With 0.5 g. of prereduced Adams platinum oxide catalyst, 198 g. (1 mole) of dimethyl m-A -tetrahydrophthalate was reduced to give 196 g. (98%) of dimethyl cw-hexahydrophthalate, b.p. 110-112°/5 mm., Wd 1.4570. 

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