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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL
Volume 306, Issue 1-2, Pages 11-16Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molcata.2009.02.018
Keywords
Ionic liquid; Heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation; Solvatochromic parameters; Solvent effects; Selectivity
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- Sharif University of Technology
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Synchronous heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of cyclohexene and acetone, catalyzed by Pt/Al2O3, was carried out in solutions of 2-hydroxy ethylammonium formate (a room temperature ionic liquid, RTIL) with ethanol and propan-1-ol at 25 degrees C. Rate constants and selectivity of the reaction (relative to cyclohexene hydrogenation) increase with mole fraction of the ionic liquid (IL). The reactants tendency to the catalyst surface increases by addition of the ionic liquid and thus the reaction rate increases, especially for cyclohexene hydrogenation. Consequently the selectivity to cyclohexene hydrogenation was increased. Single-parameter correlations of log k vs. pi* (dipolarity/polarizibility) gives reasonable results in the solution. The increase of the reaction rate with pi* is attributed to the non-polar nature of the reactants. Crown Copyright (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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