申请人:Silks Louis A.
公开号:US20110040109A1
公开(公告)日:2011-02-17
Method of producing C
8
-C
15
hydrocarbons. comprising providing a ketone starting material; providing an aldol starting material comprising chloromethylfurfural; mixing the ketone starting material and the aldol starting material in a reaction in the presence of a proline-containing catalyst selected from the group consisting of Zn(Pro)
2
, Yb(Pro)
3
, and combinations thereof, or a catalyst having one of the structures (I), (II) or (III), and in the presence of a solvent, wherein the solvent comprises water and is substantially free of organic solvents, where (I), (II) and (III) respectively are
where R
1
is a C
1
-C
6
alkyl moiety, X=(OH) and n=2.
In (III), X may be CH
2
, sulfur or selenium, M may be Zn, Mg, or a lanthanide, and R
1
and R
2
each independently may be a methyl, ethyl, phenyl moiety.