On the origin of the byproducts in the autoxidation of cyclohexane to cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone

✍ Scribed by E. F. J. Duynstee; J. L. J. P. Hennekens

• Book ID: 104587938
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 570 KB
• Volume: 89
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0513
• DOI: 10.1002/recl.19700890713

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Tracer experiments involving autoxidation of dilute solutions of inactive cyclohexanol and inactive cyclohexanone in ^14^C‐labeled cyclohexane have shown that a number of byproducts such as butanol, pentanol, butyric acid, valeric acid, caproic acid, and ϵ‐hydroxycaproic acid are to a large part formed directly from cyclohexane and not via cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone. The label distribution in ϵ‐cyclohexyloxycaproic acid, hitherto unknown as a byproduct in the cyclohexane oxidation, clearly indicated that this acid is formed from the addition product of cyclohexyl hydroperoxide and cyclohexanone.