Process for the conversion of an alkane to a mixture of an alcohol and a ketone
AssigneeThe British Petroleum Company p.l.c.
InventorsAnthony R. Middleton, David J. H. Smith
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Abstract
A mixture of the alcohol and ketone derivatives of alkanes is produced by reacting the alkane with a hydrocarbyl hydroperoxide, eg t-butyl hydroperoxide, at ambient or elevated temperature and pressure in the presence as catalyst of an iron or manganese square planar complex having heterocyclic nitrogen-donor ligands, e.g. a porphyrin or phthalocyanine complex, which complex has either no axial ligands, eg the lower valency or cationic complex, or an axial ligand which is non-coordinating or weakly-coordinating.
Claims7
A process for the conversion of C.sub.2 to C.sub.10 alkanes into a mixture of their corresponding alcohol and ketone derivatives which process comprises reacting the alkane with a hydrocarbyl hydroperoxide at ambient or elevated temperature and pressure in the presence as catalyst of an iron or manganese square planar complex having heterocylic nitrogen donor ligands, which complex has either no axial ligand or an axial ligand which is non-coordinating or weakly coordinating.
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