Catalytic oxidation of anthracene to anthraquinome

✍ Scribed by C.E. Senseman; O.A. Nelson

• Book ID: 104124373
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1923
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 171 KB
• Volume: 196
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(23)90031-1

✦ Synopsis

THE reactions involved in the production of furfural from corncobs by the steam-digestion process occur in three stages. The conversion of the pentosans into furfural does not take place quantitatively;

the yield depends upon the temperature, the time, and the ratio of the amount of cobs to the amount of water employed. The optimum conditions of operation were determined in order to apply them to larger-scale investigations.

These conditions are a temperature of about rSo" C., a reaction period of about two hours, and a ratio of cobs to water of not greater than I : 4.