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  • Catalytic hydrogenation of carbonyl containing organic compounds
    Patent number: 4182721
    Abstract: This invention relates to catalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds containing carbonyl groups, and, particularly, to the effective and rapid reduction of the carbonyl group to the corresponding hydroxy group, sometimes even very selectively in the presence of a carbon-to-carbon unsaturated group in the same compound, using as a hydrogenation catalyst Raney nickel having molybdenum adsorbed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1980
    Assignee: GAF Corporation
    Inventors: Waldo R. De Thomas, Eugene V. Hort