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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 12, Pages 2291-2298Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/ceat.201500316
Keywords
Allylbenzene; Hydrogenation; Micelles; Pd@Al2O3; Surfactant
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- Universidad de Antioquia
- Universidad Cooperative de Colombia for the Sustainability Strategy [1336]
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
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The palladium on alumina (Pd@Al2O3)-catalyzed hydrogenation of allylbenzene to propylbenzene was studied in methanol and aqueous micellar solutions of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), decyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB), and t-octylphenoxypolyethoxyethanol (TX-100). Over Pd@Al2O3, propylbenzene was obtained via direct hydrogenation of allylbenzene and isomerization to beta-methyl-styrene which was hydrogenated afterwards. In aqueous micellar solutions, the reaction was faster than in pure water, but slower than in methanol due to lower hydrogen solubility. In the H2O/SDS system, a higher activation energy was obtained than in methanol. For the investigated surfactants, the initial reaction rate in the micellar systems decreased in the order SDS > TX-100 > DTAB.
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