Leached alumina vanadyl catalysts for hydroxylation of aromatics using molecular oxygen as the terminal oxidant without coreductant
AssigneeSun Company, Inc.
InventorsVincent A. Durante, Tilak P. Wijesekera, Swati Karmakar
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Abstract
A process is disclosed for the catalytic hydroxylation of aromatic hydrocarbons which comprises contacting aromatic feedstock with oxidant comprising molecular oxygen, under suitable reaction conditions, in the presence of a catalyst comprising vanadyl (V.sup.IV) on an alumina support, preferably on leached alumina. The process is particularly suited, for example, to the one-step conversion of benzene to phenol.
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A process for catalytic ring hydroxylation of aromatic hydrocarbons comprising contacting aromatic feedstock with oxidant comprising molecular oxygen under suitable reaction conditions in the presence of a catalyst comprising V.sup.IV on a leached alumina support.
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