spectrometric techniques and molecularorbitalcalculations. Metastable dissociations of various deuterated species demonstrate that the loss of ethene from 1 involves specifically a transfer of a hydrogen atom from the methyl to the NH2 group. A very limited scrambling (4%) of the hydrogen atoms of the ethyl moiety is observed. Ab initio molecularorbitalcalculations have been performed at the M
Investigations into the mechanism of the liquid-phase hydrogenation of nitriles over Raney-Co catalysts
作者:P SCHARRINGER、T MULLER、J LERCHER
DOI:10.1016/j.jcat.2007.10.008
日期:2008.1.1
The co-hydrogenation of acetonitrile and butyronitrile over Raney-Co was investigated in order to obtain insight into the mechanism underlying the formation of secondary amines. Acetonitrile was reduced much faster to the corresponding primary amine due to stronger adsorption on the catalyst surface. In parallel, dialkylimines were formed and subsequently converted to secondary amines. It is suggested that the dialkylimines are formed by reaction of partially hydrogenated intermediate species on the cobalt surface with amines. In this respect, n-butylamine was found to react much faster than ethylamine. The stronger inductive effect of the butyl chain is thought to facilitate nucleophilic attack of the amine at the alpha-C-atom of the surface species. By comparing the C-2 and C-4 balance for dialkylimines and dialkylamines, it was found that direct hydrogenation of the dialkylimine cannot be the only way of dialkylarnine formation. Instead, it is suggested that alkyl group transfer occurs by reaction of a monoalkylamine with a dialkylimine and cross-transfer between two dialkylimines. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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