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US 2018/0312454 A1Published application
Process for the preparation of deuterated ethanol from d2
AssigneeDeuteria Beverages, LLC
InventorsLaurent Lefort, Mike Schmitkamp
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a deuterated ethanol from an acetic acid, an acetate, or an amide by reaction with D2 in the presence of a transition metal catalyst.
Claims22
A process for the preparation of a deuterated ethanol of the formula (I)
- CR1R2R3CR4R5OH (I)
- comprising:
- reacting compound (II) with D2 in the presence of a catalyst of formula (III):
- MLaXb (III)
- wherein:
- R1-R5 are independently H or D, provided that the abundance of D in R4 and R5 is at least 70%;
- compound (II) is selected from:
- acetic acid, an acetate, and an amide
- M is a transition metal;
- L is a ligand;
- X is a counterion;
- a is an integer selected from 1-5;
- and,
- b is an integer selected from 0-5.
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