Hydrogenations over silver: A highly active and chemoselective Ag-In/SiO2 catalyst for the one-step synthesis of allyl alcohol from acrolein

摘要

A highly active, chemoselective and environmentally friendly Ag-In catalyst which enables the extremely difficult selective hydrogenation of acrolein to allyl alcohol is described. The catalyst performance far exceeds the space-time yield for the industrially performed synthesis of allyl alcohol by the isomerization of propene oxide, and can be regarded as a basis for a one step hydrogenation process of acrolein.