THE PREPARATION OF RANEY NICKEL CATALYSTS AND THEIR USE UNDER CONDITIONS COMPARABLE WITH THOSE FOR PLATINUM AND PALLADIUM CATALYSTS
THE PREPARATION OF RANEY NICKEL CATALYSTS AND THEIR USE UNDER CONDITIONS COMPARABLE WITH THOSE FOR PLATINUM AND PALLADIUM CATALYSTS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01182a080
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发表时间:
1948-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
BILLICA, HR
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作者:
ADKINS, H;BILLICA, HR
It has been the practice in this and many other laboratories to use a platinum or palladium cata-lyst if a hydrogenation was to be carried out in glass apparatus at room temperatures. However, improvements in the procedure for the preparation of a catalyst from the Raney nickel-aluminum alloy now makes available a catalyst which appears to be approximately as effective as platinum or palladium for catalysis of hydrogenation at pressures of 45 p. s. i. or lower. It is not implied that any of the three metals is lacking in charac-teristics which make it uniquely useful. For ex-ample, the inactivity of palladium against benze-noid nuclei and nitriles and its relative inactivity toward aldehydes make this catalyst particularly useful in certain selective hydrogenations. Plati-num and nickel are more alike in activity in that both, under suitable conditions, are effective against almost all types of carbon-to-carbon double bonds, aldehydes, ketones, nitriles, nitro compounds and oximes. Each of them is pre-ferred to the other for certain situations. The activity of Raney nickel catalysts under mild conditions has been recognized for some time. In our first publication, 2 its effectiveness at low pressure and room temperature was illustrated with results obtained with styrene, acetone, mesi-tyl oxide and acetoacetic ester among other com-pounds. GB L. Smith andhis associates3 have'reported on the effectiveness of Raney nickel with and without a platinum promoter particularly for the hydrogenation of nitro com-pounds. However, it seemed that the Raney nickel catalysts available were not particularly useful at room temperature, except in the hydrogenation of alkene linkages. The most active nickel catalyst now known, to us is one to which we refer as “W-6 Raney nickel,’’4 It is made by a procedure given later in this paper. The modifications of earlier procedures consist in rapidly carrying out the removal of aluminum from the Raney alloy at a lower temperature and in washing the catalyst under pressure of hydro-gen. The use of hydrogen under pressure in the washing process may be advantageous in that it protects the catalyst from contact with air and the loss of the rather large quantity of hydrogen which is adsorbed on the catalyst. There is summarized in the table the results of applying the W-6 Raney nickel catalyst to the hydrogenation of a variety of organic compounds.