Influence of methanol addition during selective hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexene

VANINA MAZZIERI, PABLO L'ARGENTIERE, NORA FÍGOLI

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Akademiai Kiadó, Budapest and Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Lugar: Debye Institute, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht The Netherlands; Año: 2004 vol. 81 p. 107 - 112

0133-1736

The addition of a certain methanol concentration during benzene hydrogenation on Ru/Al2O3 improves the selectivity to cyclohexene because of a preferential adsorption of methanol on the most active Ru sites.2O3 improves the selectivity to cyclohexene because of a preferential adsorption of methanol on the most active Ru sites.