Dimerization of Acrylonitrile by Ruthenium Chloride
- 1 February 1968
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
- Vol. 41 (2) , 396-401
- https://doi.org/10.1246/bcsj.41.396
Abstract
The end-to-end dimerization of acrylonitrile was effected with a ruthenium trichloride trihydrate catalyst under a hydrogen atmosphere, thus obtaining a mixture of cis- and trans-1, 4-dicyano-1-butene as the main products. Under nitrogen, however, only very small amounts of these products were formed. The reaction occurred at temperatures of 120–200°C under moderate hydrogen pressures in alcoholic media such as ethanol. The effects of various salts or electron-donating compounds on the catalysis were examined.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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