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Hydrogenation of Nitrobenzene to Aniline via a Hydrogen Transfer Process Catalyzed by Tris(acetylacetonato)ruthenium(Ⅲ)

WANG Wei, LIU Jingjing, ZHANG Long*   

  1. (Jilin Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Complex Uitlization of Biomass and Petroresources,
    School of Chemical Engineering,Changchun University of Technology,Changchun 130012,China)
  • Received:2012-08-27 Revised:2012-10-08 Published:2013-04-10 Online:2013-04-10
  • About author:王巍 (1987- )长春工业大学化学工程学院 吉林省石化资源与生物质综合利用工程实验室 在读硕士研究生。

Abstract: Using home-made tris(acetylacetonato)ruthenium(Ⅲ), Ru(acac)3, as catalyst, the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene to aniline via a hydrogen transfer process using sodium formate as hydrogen donor was investigated. The effects of reaction conditions such as temperature, time, dosage of catalyst and categories of hydrogen donor were investigated. The optimized reaction conditions are: the reaction temperature is 80 ℃, the reaction time is 4 h and the molar ratio of sodium formate to nitrobenzene is 2∶1. Under optimized conditions, the conversion of nitrobenzene is nearly 100% with 96.65% yield of aniline. This result shows that Ru(acac)3 exhibits good catalytic activities in the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene.

Key words: tris(acetylacetonato)ruthenium(Ⅲ), catalytic transfer hydrogention, nitrobenzene, aniline

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