38384-38-2

Upstream product

• 123-72-8 butyraldehyde 
• 2372-45-4 sodium butanolate 
• 71-36-3 butan-1-ol 
• 1632-16-2 2-ethyl-1-hexene 
• 645-62-5 2-ethylhexenal 

Downstream Products

• 1422374-17-1 (E)-4-ethyl-1-phenyloct-4-en-1-one 
• 1422373-85-0 (E)-2-(but-1-en-1-yl)-2-ethyl-5-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrrole 
• 123-05-7 d,l-2-ethylhexanal 
• 15726-15-5 3-methyl-4-heptanone 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALCOHOL COMPOUND

Disclosed is a practical method for efficiently producing an alcohol compound by hydrogenating an aldehyde by using a homogeneous copper catalyst which is an easily-available low-cost metal species. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing an alcohol compound, which is characterized in that a hydrogenation reaction of an aldehyde compound is performed in the presence of a homogeneous copper catalyst and a diphosphine compound.

A practical and highly chemoselective hydrogenation of aldehydes with a copper catalyst

A practical hydrogenation of aldehydes mediated by an inexpensive and easily available base metal, copper, is reported. A copper complex associated with 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane (DPPB) hydrogenates α,β- unsaturated aldehydes in a highly chemoselective fashion to give allylic alcohols with improved catalytic productivities. The reaction system was also effective for the conversion of simple aldehydes to the corresponding alcohols. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart.