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  • Selective oxidation of chrysanthemyl alcohol
    Patent number: 4049706
    Abstract: Chrysanthemyl alcohol is selectively oxidized to the corresponding aldehyde by contact with oxygen-containing gas in the presence of supported noble metal catalyst composed of platinum on carbon. The obtained aldehyde may be further converted to chrysanthemic acid by oxidation with a solid inorganic oxidizing agent such as silver oxide in excess of stoichiometric quantity, or by reaction with a catalytic amount of oxidation promoting catalyst such as silver oxide in the presence of cupric oxide and molecular oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventor: Augustine I. Dalton, Jr.