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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
Volume 234, Issue 1, Pages 161-171Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2005.06.011
Keywords
chemoselective hydrogenation; unsaturated nitriles; Cr-doped raney cobalt; Raney nickel; unsaturated amines; structure-reactivity; structure-selectivity relationship
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Several unsaturated nitriles of various structures (cinnamonitrile, cyclohex-l-enyl-acetonitrile, acrylonitrile, 3,3-dimethyl-acrylonitrile, geranylnitrile, and 2- and 3-pentenenitrile) with different substituents at the double bond were hydrogenated over Cr-doped Raney cobalt and nickel and over their undoped equivalents. The substitution and the position of the double bond relative to the nitrile group are crucial in determining the chemoselectivity for the unsaturated amine. The double bond is not hydrogenated when it is sterically hindered or if it is too far from the nitrile group (cyclohex-l-enyl-acetonitrile, double bond at C-6 in geranylnitrile). In conjugated systems, such as acrylonitrile or 2-pentenylnitrile, the activated double bond is hydrogenated before the nitrile. An additional methyl substituent at the double bond enhances the selectivity for unsaturated amines and, thus, 3,3-dimethyl-acrylonitrile and geranylnitrile were hydrogenated with selectivity up to 40%. The highest selectivities for unsaturated amines (up to 90%) were reached during the hydrogenation of nonconjugated systems, such as cyclohex-1-enyl-acetonitrile and 3-pentenylnitrile. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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