Relative Reactivities of Some Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Catalytic Hydrogenation over Raney Nickel

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/bcsj.66.670

Catalytic hydrogenation of 9H-fluorene (10), phenanthrene (2), 4H-cyclopentaphenanthrene (3), pyrene (4), and fluoranthene (5) was carried out over Raney nickel (W-7) at 323 K under 608 kPa of hydrogen.The order of the reaction rate was 5>4>3>2>1.The adsorption equilibrium constant of the substrates decreased in the order 4 > or = 5 >> 2 > 3 >> 1.