Thermal high pressure hydrogenolysis II. The thermal high pressure hydrocracking of fluorene

Oltay, Ernst and Penninger, Johannes M.L. and Konter, Willem A.N. (1973) Thermal high pressure hydrogenolysis II. The thermal high pressure hydrocracking of fluorene. Journal of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, 23 (8). pp. 573-579. ISSN 0375-9210

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Abstract:	The thermal hydrocracking of fluorene was investigated in the temperature range of 400 to 480 °C and hydrogen pressures of up to 375 atm. As main reaction products were found 2-methylbiphenyl, biphenyl, toluene and benzene. They account for about 90% of the converted fluorene. Only very low concentrations of diphenylmethane were detected at the highest temperature. This indicates that the opening of the phenyl - CH2 bond in fluorene is much faster than the splitting of the phenyl - phenyl bond. The splitting of the phenyl - phenyl bond in biphenyl, however, proceeded with a rate equal to the splitting of the phenyl - CH2 bond in fluorene and the phenyl - CH3 bond in 2-methylbiphenyl.
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Copyright:	© 1973 Wiley InterScience
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/70695
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jctb.5020230803
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