Competitive Catalytic Hydrogenation in the Liquid Phase on Solid Catalysts

Abstract

Problems of heterogeneously catalyzed hydrogenation have received increased attention recently. Although the process ranks among those most widely used in the industrial practice, knowledge of it is still inadequate. One of the interesting problems, still also unexplored from the theoretical point of view, concerns competitive catalytic hydrogenations, i.e., reaction systems in which more than one compound react simultaneously. Basically, these systems can be divided into two classes: (1) various functional groups enter the reaction and (2) the reacting functional groups are the same. Competing groups capable of hydrogenation may be contained in one or several molecules.