540-09-0Relevant articles and documents
Heterogeneous ketonic decarboxylation of dodecanoic acid: Studying reaction parameters
Greenwell, Hugh Christopher,Perera-Solis, Diego D.,Whiting, Andrew,Zholobenko, Vladimir L.
, p. 35575 - 35584 (2021/11/30)
Ketonic decarboxylation has gained significant attention in recent years as a pathway to reduce the oxygen content within biomass-derived oils, and to produce sustainable ketones. The reaction is base catalysed, with MgO an economic, accessible and highly basic heterogeneous catalyst. Here we use MgO to catalyse the ketonic decarboxylation of dodecanoic acid to form 12-tricosanone at moderate temperatures (250 °C, 280 °C and 300 °C) with low catalyst loads of 1% (w/w), 3% (w/w) and 5% (w/w) with respect to the dodecanoic acid, with a reaction time of 1 hour under batch conditions. Three different particle sizes for the MgO were tested (50 nm, 100 nm and 44 μm). Ketone yield was found to increase with increasing reaction temperature, reaching approximately 75% yield for all the samples tested. Temperature was found to be the main control on reaction yield, rather than surface area or particle size.
Highly productive α-alkylation of ketones with alcohols mediated by an Ir-oxalamidato/solid base catalyst system
Maeda, Hironori,Nara, Hideki,Shimizu, Hideo
supporting information, p. 2772 - 2779 (2020/12/29)
An Ir-oxalamidato complex in combination with a solid base (e.g., magnesium aluminometasilicate/Ca(OH)2) significantly improved the catalyst productivity in α-alkylation of methyl ketones with primary alcohols. Optimization through systematic variation of the oxalamidato ligand led to a practical turnover number (TON) of 10 000.40 000.
PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF ALKOXYLATES COMPOSITIONS
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A mixture of two alkoxylates surfactants, one being an aryl aliphatic carbinol alkoxylate, the other one being a dialiphatic carbinol alkoxylate, said mixture being useful for stabilizing emulsions and dispersions used in agricultural or pharmaceutical formulations. The alkoxylates surfactants may serve as substitutes for nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE) and tristyrylphenol ethoxylates (TSE).
