The Pennsylvania State University. The Graduate School. Eberly College of Science THE UNDERFUNCTIONALIZATION OF ALCOHOLS BY HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSTS
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1 The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School Eberly College of Science THE UNDERFUNCTIONALIZATION OF ALCOHOLS BY HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSTS A Thesis in Chemistry by Jennifer M. Nguyen 2009 Jennifer M. Nguyen Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science August 2009
2 ii The thesis of Jennifer M. Nguyen was reviewed and approved* by the following: Ayusman Sen Professor of Chemistry Thesis Adviser Martin Bollinger Professor of Chemistry Scott Phillips Professor of Chemistry *Signatures are on file in the Graduate School.
3 iii Abstract Finite oil reserves along with worries of global warning suggest that alternative sources of fuel are necessary in the future, especially for the transportation industry. As renewable resources are preferable, we look at biomass as a fuel alternative. In order for biomass to be a viable supplement, it must be deoxygenated in order to fit the physical properties of liquid fuels used in the transportation industry today. Since liquid alkanes are highly valuable for this, we attempted to selectively deoxygenate alcohols in an acid-catalyzed hydrogenation reaction using hydroiodic acid and rhodium trichloride. The goal of this research was to find a system that we can then test on straight chain carbohydrates.
4 iv Table of Contents List of Tables. v List of Tables. vi Chapter 1: Introduction. 1 Chapter 2: Experimental General Comments Synthesis.. 10 Chapter 3: Results and Discussion Substrate Analyses Catalyst Analyses Solvent Analyses Reactant Analyses Additional Analyses. 21 Chapter 4: Conclusions.. 23 References Appendix: Spectral Data. 25
5 v List of Tables Introduction Table 1: Conventional and alternative fuels used in transportation. 4 Results and Discussion Table 2: Alcohol dehydration-hydrogenation reactions. 12 Table 3: Diol dehydration-hydrogenation reactions using hydroiodic acid 13 Table 4: Diol dehydration-hydrogenation reactions using sulfuric acid. 14 Table 5: Conversion of alcohols to their corresponding iodoalkane Table 6: Conversion of iodohexanes to hexane/hexenes Table 7: Catalyst effects on iodoalkanes. 17 Table 8: Catalyst effects on alcohol 18 Table 9: Solvent effects on the conversion of alcohols to alkanes. 20 Table 10: Reactant effects on the conversion of alcohols to alkanes. 21 Table 11: Effect of iodide in the conversion of alcohols to alkanes 22
6 vi List of Figures Introduction Figure 1: The growth of biofuel production in the transportation fuel industry between 2000 to Figure 2: Alcohol sustainability of biomass in fuel production 3 Figure 3: The opposing issues of underfunctionalization and overfunctionalization with crude oil and biomass 5 Figure 4: Three primary routes for liquid fuel production from cellulosic biomass. 5 Figure 5: Fuel production from syn-gasification.. 6 Figure 6: Suggested pathway involving acid hydrolysis for selectively deoxygenating polyols 7 Figure 7: Potential applications for the products resulting from the deoxygenation of linear polyols.. 8
7 1 Chapter 1 Introduction The current decline in oil prices during the latter half of 2008 contradicts the decrease in the quantity of petroleum across the world. As a fuel, petroleum, otherwise known as crude, naturally occurring oil, is the main source of energy for transportation vehicles and also contributes to the production of fuel for heat. From diesel fuel to jet fuel to gasoline, the transportation market is almost exclusively tied to the petroleum industry. Gasoline and diesel primarily fuel land vehicles while aircrafts run on kerosene and ships on heavy fuels. 1 However, the downside of this oil dependency lies in the fact that petroleum is not a renewable resource; the oil used today has been formed from prehistoric organic materials as a result of high temperature and pressure. Thus, there will be a time that petroleum fuel reserves will dry out completely. It has been reported from USA Today as well as from reputable scientists that there are only 40 years of petroleum left in the world. Despite this, the longevity of petroleum remains highly debated, yet all agree that petroleum reserves are not a lasting, renewable commodity. To this end, studies into the use of renewable technologies as an alternative to petroleum are ongoing. Sustainable fuels are being sought to minimize the concerns of finite crude oil, cleaner fuel, greenhouse emissions, the Kyoto protocol, and the dependency on imported oil. Such options include solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass energy. The latter of the aforementioned renewable energy sources, biomass, has recently garnered much attention in both the scientific and general community. 2 As a fuel, biomass is seen in roughly 10% of the world s energy use today. Perhaps the most prominent example of biomass lies in the ethanol used in conjunction with gasoline today; this ethanol is derived from the production of corn, where it is then blended with gasoline for use
8 2 in automobiles. 3 In addition, fatty acid methyl esters are used in blending for diesel engines. 2 However, in the transportation fuel market, biomass-derived fuel such as ethanol only contributes about 3% of gasoline consumption while biodiesel contributes less than 0.3% (Figure 1). 3 Figure 1: The growth of biofuel production in the transportation fuel industry between 2000 to Nevertheless, not only is biomass a renewable resource, it offers a variety of advantages over the current petroleum-driven processes. While petroleum production and consumption result in environmentally unfriendly products such as greenhouse emissions, the sustainability of biomass can potentially reduce such problems by reusing carbon dioxide emissions and producing less hazardous waste.
9 3 Figure 2: Potential sustainability of biomass in fuel production. 4 Additionally, the functionality of highly oxygenated biomass rests in contrast with the underfunctionality of crude oil, where conditions to underfunctionalize biomass encourages the use of innovative deoxygenation pathways. To understand the utilization of biomass as a supplement to crude oil, the specifications for a good fuel should be first discussed. Currently, transportation fuels have both low and high boiling mixtures of hydrocarbons. Commonly used low boiling fuels include compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquid petroleum gas (LPG); hydrogen and dimethyl ether are alternative fuels with similar volatilities. 1 Figure 3 below indicates some of the conventional fuels used worldwide today and correlates their volatilities to alternative fuel sources.
10 4 Table 1: Common conventional and alternative fuels used in transportation. 1 (CNG = compressed natural gas, LPG = liquefied petroleum gas, DME = dimethyl ether, ETBE = ethyl tertiary butyl ether, GTL = gas to liquids, FAME = fatty acid methyl esters, FAEE = fatty acid ethyl esters, HTU = hydrothermal upgrading) One of the major problems with utilizing biomass as a fuel resource, however, is the difficulties in converting the functionality of biomass into a usable fuel resource. The cheapest and most abundant source of biomass is lignocellulose. Unfortunately, this biomass cannot be used without deoxygenating the structure, turning it into a higher density liquid fuel. 4 Generally, lignocellulosic biomass consists of wt % oxygen. 4 By removing the oxygen, the heating value of the liquid fuel becomes higher, which is desirable in the transportation fuel industry; this occurs as the presence of oxygen lowers the energy density of the fuel, where combustion is always an issue. In theory then, as crude oil, composed of mainly hydrocarbons, consists of low oxygen content and often needs to be overfunctionalized, biomass suffers from the reverse: it needs to be underfunctionalized.
11 5 Figure 3: The opposing issues of underfunctionalization and overfunctionalization with crude oil and biomass. 4 In this case of underfunctionalization then, there are three primary methods in which cellulosic biomass can be converted into potential fuel reserves. Figure 4: Three primary routes for liquid fuel production from cellulosic biomass. 4 Syn-gas production from gasification, bio-oil production from pyrolysis or liquefaction, and the hydrolysis of polyols are all possible routes to the production of liquid fuels. Syn-gas production encompasses a variety of different fuels, some of which include hydrogen production by the
12 6 water-gas shift reaction of carbon dioxide and water. Methanol synthesis and alkane production by the Fischer-Tropsch process are also syn-gas methods for the manufacture of fuel sources. Figure 5: Fuel production from syn-gasification. Bio-fuel production from pyrolysis or liquefaction occurs when biomass is slowly heated in the absence of air to form liquid products. Finally, the hydrolysis of polyols is the route that addresses the problem of overfunctionality in biomass; producing monomer units from biomass such as sugar cane through acid hydrolysis and subsequent hydrogenation is favorable to then produce targeted fuel sources. However, lignocellulose and biomass with high degrees of oxygenation and stability prove more difficult in this first-step hydrolysis. Nonetheless, much research has been produced with regard to utilizing acid hydrolysis on biomass, as the subsequent hydrogenation of biomass to monomers is an advantageous method to selectively convert the monomers to fuel. 4 One particularly noteworthy benchmark in biomass hydrolysis was Dumesic s recent three-step process in converting the sugar fructose into 2,5-dimethyltetrahydrofuran through the intermediate hydroxymethylfurfural, a compound with incredible potential use as a transportation fuel. 5 Not only does 2,5-dimethyltetrahydrofuran have a higher energy density
13 7 than ethanol, its boiling point is also higher and it remains insoluble in water. In 2002, fructose had been shown to convert to hydroxymethylfurfural via an acid-catalyzed dehydration. 6 In 2007, Dumesic suggested as well as demonstrated that this conversion can precede the transformation of hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-dimethyltetrahydrofuran. In addition, the production of hydroxymethylfurfural from glucose has been shown, though it is much less selective. The mechanism from hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-dimethyltetrahydrofuran is, however, controversial, yet the interest around the dehydration of alcohol groups in fructose has spurred much research into the field of biofuels. With respect to Dumesic s research then, the idea of selective deoxygenation is a long term goal of many researchers. This idea seeks to take sugars and their corresponding polyols and convert them into simple alcohols utilizing simple catalyst systems for deoxygenation. The common strategy, as suggested by Schlaf, states: An acid-catalyzed dehydration followed by a metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and/or hydrogenolysis. 7 As secondary carbon-oxygen bonds tend to be more reactive than its primary counterparts, the hope is that eventually, a one-pot process will be formulated in which sugar polyols can be selectively hydrogenated (Figure 7). Figure 6: Suggested pathway involving acid hydrolysis for selectively deoxygenating polyols. As a basis to selectively hydrogenating sugar polyols, we decided to then to first study the hydrogenolysis of linear chain alcohols. The conversion of linear polyols to primary diols offers two unique advantages in biomass conversion. The first advantage lies in the fact that
14 8 with the utilization of linear and simple polyols, we may be better able to understand the mechanisms that can occur through hydrogenolysis of more complex biomass material. Perhaps by studying simple reactions, mechanistic contributions to the unknown hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-dimethyltetrahydrofuran conversion can be discovered. Secondly, underfunctionalizing simple linear polyols also contributes a great deal to the biomass hydrogenolysis as well; for example, the deoxygenation of glycerol, a compound that is easily produced in high quantities, has the potential to produce 1,3-propanediol. 1,3-propanediol is an incredibly attractive deoxygenation target, as 1,3-propanediol is used in the synthesis of polypropyleneterephtalate, or PPT. 7 The deoxygenation of linear polyols would result in many applications, some of which are shown in Figure 8 below. Figure 8: Potential applications for the products resulting from the deoxygenation of linear polyols. 7
15 9 This deoxygenation has been accomplished in several ways with varying results. Glycerol, often a byproduct of oil refineries, has been selectively deoxygenated to 1,3- propanediol through homogenous catalysis and hydrogenation based upon palladium and phosphorous complexes; the yield of these experiments, however, is low. 8,9 Biotechnological pathways involving enzymes of bacteria have also been shown to selectively deoxygenate glycerol; however, the resultant product is difficult to process and gather. Erythritol, through dehydrogenation and hydrogenation, can be transformed into 1,4-butanediol as well as THF. 10 Dupont has achieved this selectivity to THF by using Re/Ni catalysts supported on carbon in a hydrogen environment. 11,12 Additionally, xylose has been converted to low yields of 1,5- pentanediol using heterogeneous catalyst systems based upon copper complexes. 13 As we considered these previously published experiments, we chose our primary objectives to first center around the deoxygenation of simple alcohols to alkanes. To do this, we chose to use acid hydrolysis on an alcohol substrate based around hydroiodic acid and a catalyst, typically rhodium trichloride; this acid and this catalyst were chosen based on their previous successes in carbohydrate dehydration from the Sen group. The reactants were then subjected to hydrogenation at high temperatures. From this, we hoped to discover the effects of items such as substrate, catalyst activation, and solvent effects on the acid hydrolysis of the alcohols.
16 10 Chapter 2 Experimental 2.1 General Comments All chemicals and solvents were acquired from commercial sources and used in its original form if not stated otherwise. All characterizations were performed at the Pennsylvania State University. Initial GC spectra were taken on a Agilent gas chromatograph. GC-MS spectra were taken on a Waters LCT Premier mass spectrometer. 1 H spectra were taken on a Bruker Avance spectrometer referenced to trimethylsilane at 360 MHz. 2.2 Synthesis Preparation of alkyl iodides from alcohols In a one-neck, round bottom flask, the alcohol (31.5 mmol) and hydroiodic acid (57% wt, 7 ml) was added. The solution was refluxed in an oil bath at 100 o C or 120 o C for 4 hours. After 4 hours, the solution was let cool to room temperature before cooling in ice. The organic layer was isolated, dried by anhydrous sodium sulfate, and analyzed by gas chromatography and proton NMR. Preparation of alkanes from alkyl iodides In a glass liner, the alkyl iodide (1.0 mmol) was added along with rhodium trichloride, or a different catalyst (0.05 mmol), and a stir bar. The solvent (1 ml) was added to the glass liner. The solvent (1 ml) was used to coat the inside of a bomb before the liner was loosely capped and placed inside. The bomb was filled with 500 psi hydrogen and 500 psi argon gas and placed in an oil bath at 100 C overnight. The bomb was taken out of the oil bath and let sit to room temperature, then cooled in an ice bath while the pressure inside was slowly released. The organic solvent both inside and
17 11 outside of the liner was isolated and analyzed by gas chromatography. Deuterated water was added to the aqueous layer, and a proton NMR was taken. Preparation of alkanes from alcohols In a glass liner, the alcohol (1.0 mmol) was added along with rhodium trichloride or a different catalyst (0.05 mmol), hydroiodic acid (57% wt., 5.0 mmol), and a stir bar. The solvent (1 ml) was added to the glass liner. The solvent (1 ml) was used to coat the inside of a bomb before the liner was loosely capped and placed inside. The bomb was filled with 500 psi hydrogen and 500 psi argon gas and placed in an oil bath at 100 C overnight. The bomb was taken out of the oil bath and let sit to room temperature, then cooled in an ice bath while the pressure inside was slowly released. The organic solvent both inside and outside of the liner was isolated and analyzed by gas chromatography. Deuterated water was added to the aqueous layer, and a proton NMR was taken.
18 12 Chapter 3 Results and Discussion A dehydration-hydrogenation reaction utilizing catalytic amounts of hydroiodic acid and rhodium trichloride was attempted on a variety of linear alcohols and diols. Concerning the mono-alcohols shown in Table 2 below, it was seen that iodoalkanes were produced. Table 2: Alcohol dehydration-hydrogenation reactions Entry Reactant Acid Product Yield (%) 1 1-hexanol HI 1-iodohexane hexanol HI Hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI Hexane/hexenes iodohexane 90.2 *In all of the experiments, 1 ml of toluene lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bombs were filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. The bombs were placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours) at 100 C. *Conversion based on gas chromatography. Conversely, when the system was run with diols, the majority of the diols underwent acidcatalyzed dehydration and cyclization. When the acid was changed to hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid, similar results were obtained, with the major difference being the dehydrationcyclization of 1,6-hexanediol when the acid catalyst was sulfuric acid.
19 13 Table 3: Diol dehydration-hydrogenation reactions using hydroiodic acid Entry Reactant Acid Product Yield (%) 1 1,6-hexanediol HI None None 2 1,5-hexanediol HI 2-methyltetrahydropyran ethyltetrahydrofuran ,5-hexanediol HI cis-2, dimethyltetrahydrofuran trans-2, dimethyltetrahydrofuran 4 1,2-hexanediol HI unreacted N/A *In all of the experiments, 1 ml of toluene lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bombs were filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. The bombs were placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours) at 100 C. *Conversion based on gas chromatography.
20 14 Table 4: Diol dehydration-hydrogenation reactions using sulfuric acid Entry Reactant Acid Product Yield (%) 1 1,6-hexanediol H 2 SO 4 2-ethyltetrahydrofuran ,5-hexanediol H 2 SO 4 2-methyltetrahydropyran ethyltetrahydrofuran ,5-hexanediol H 2 SO 4 cis-2, dimethyltetrahydrofuran trans-2, dimethyltetrahydrofuran 4 1,2-hexanediol H 2 SO 4 unreacted N/A *In all of the experiments, 1 ml of toluene lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bombs were filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. The bombs were placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours) at 100 C. *Conversion based on gas chromatography. As neither the mono-alcohols nor the diols produced the desired products from hydrogenation, further experimentation was performed varying the substrate, catalyst, and solvent to examine the products of the hydrogenation reaction. 3.1 Substrate Analyses To analyze the effects of the substrates on the conversion from alcohols to alkanes, we sought to determine if starting with the iodoalkane was necessary for the conversion, as beginning with an alcohol substrate did not produce the subsequent hydrogenated product in high amounts. A simple procedure where the substrate alcohol is reacted with hydroiodic acid at high temperatures was able to produce the necessary iodoalkanes in high yield. 14 Primary as well as secondary iodoalkanes were produced from their alcohol counterparts, and primary diols were
21 15 also converted to their correlating iodoalkanes (Table 3). However, 1,2-diols were unable to be converted to iodoalkanes. Table 5: Conversion of alcohols to their corresponding iodoalkane Entry Reactant Acid Conditions Oil Bath Temp ( C) Yield (%) 1 1-butanol HI Reflux, 4 h pentanol HI Reflux, 4 h hexanol HI Reflux, 4 h hexanol HI Reflux, 4 h hexanol HI Reflux, 4 h ,3-propanediol HI Reflux, 4 h ,4-butanediol HI Reflux, 4 h ,5-pentanediol HI Reflux, 4 h *In all of the experiments, 1 ml of toluene lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bombs were filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. The bombs were placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours). *Conversion based on gas chromatography.
22 16 Table 6: Conversion of iodohexanes to hexane/hexenes Entry Reactant Catalyst Oil Bath Temp Yield (%) ( C) 1 1-iodohexane RhCl iodohexane RhCl iodohexane RhCl *In all of the experiments, 1 ml of toluene lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bombs were filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. The bombs were placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours) at 100 C. *Conversion based on gas chromatography. The resultant iodoalkanes were then utilized to determine if it the iodoalkanes were able to be hydrogenated in the presence of rhodium trichloride and hydrogen gas. 1-iodohexane along with 2-iodohexane and 3-iodohexane were the primary substrates used in these experiments, where the iodohexane and the chosen catalyst, rhodium trichloride, were subjected to high pressure hydrogenation within a bomb. The results indicated that little of the iodohexane was hydrogenated to hexane/hexenes. 3.2 Catalyst Analyses In the case that the catalyst, rhodium trichloride, was not effective for our hydrogenation efforts, we tested a variety of different catalysts on both the alcohol and iodoalkane substrates. The hexane and hexenes produced from each experiment were low in yield; however, the utilization of the catalyst rhodium trichloride appeared to give the highest percent recovery. Additionally, changing the catalyst while attempting to hydrogenate the alcohol directly, not the iodoalkane, also presented similar results.
23 17 Table 7: Catalyst effects on iodoalkanes Entry Reactant Catalyst Products Yield (%) 1 1-iodohexane Pd/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane RhCl 3 hexane/hexenes iodohexane Rh/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane RuCl 3 hexane/hexenes iodohexane Ru/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane Pd/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane RhCl 3 hexane/hexenes iodohexane Rh/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane RuCl 3 hexane/hexenes iodohexane Ru/C hexane/hexenes 3.2 *In all of the experiments, 1 ml of toluene lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bombs were filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. The bombs were placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours) at 100 C. *Conversion based on gas chromatography.
24 18 Table 8: Catalyst effects on alcohols Entry Reactant Acid Catalyst Products Yield (%) 1 1-hexanol HI Pd/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI RhCl 3 hexane/hexene iodohexane hexanol HI Rh/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI RuCl 3 hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI Ru/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI Pd/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI RhCl 3 hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI Rh/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI RuCl 3 hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI Ru/C hexane/hexenes 7.0
25 19 3-iodohexane hexanol HI Pd/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI RhCl 3 hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI Rh/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI RuCl 3 hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol HI Ru/C hexane/hexenes iodohexane 70 *In all of the experiments, 1 ml of toluene lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bombs were filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. The bombs were placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours) at 100 C. *Conversion based on gas chromatography. In the case of varying the catalyst with the alcohols, each alcohol produced the corresponding iodoalkane in high quantity and hexane/hexenes in small quantity. Rhodium trichloride also gave the highest yield of hexane/hexenes as compared to the other four catalysts tested. 3.3 Solvent Analyses In order to catch the low boiling hydrogenated organic products produced from the reaction mixture, a 2 ml of a solvent was added to both the glass liner and bomb. Generally, toluene was added due to its higher boiling point than water. However, in the case that there were solvent interactions during the reaction, the solvent was varied from nonpolar to polar and
26 20 from low boiling to high boiling solvents to determine the solvent effect on the hydrogenation of alcohols. Table 9: Solvent effects on the conversion of alcohols to alkanes Entry Reactant Solvent Products Yield (%) 1 2-hexanol Toluene Hexane/hexenes 2-iodohexane hexanol 1,3-dichlorobenzene Hexanes/hexenes 2-iodohexane hexanol NMP unreacted N/A 4 2-hexanol HMPA unreacted N/A *In all of the experiments, 1 ml of solvent lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bombs were filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. The bombs were placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours) at 100 C. *Conversion based on gas chromatography. As shown in Table 8 above, polar solvents such as NMP and HMPA were not successful in producing hydrogenated products while benzene, toluene, and the high boiling solvent 1,3- dichlorobenzene produced small yields of the hydrogenated products. 3.4 Reactant Analyses In the case that any of the components in the reaction mixture was detrimental to the hydrogenation process, we ran a series of reactions to determine the effects of each element on hydrogenation.
27 21 Table 10: Reactant effects on the conversion of alcohols to alkanes Reactant Acid Catalyst H 2 Product Yield (%) 2-hexanol HI None Yes Hexane/hexenes iodohexane 53.8 a 3-hexanol HI None None Hexane/hexenes iodohexane hexanol None None Yes unreacted N/A 3-hexanol None RhCl 3 Yes unreacted N/A *In all of the experiments, 1 ml of toluene lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bombs were filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. In a, the bomb was not filled with H 2. The bombs were placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours) at 100 C. *Conversion based on gas chromatography. When the reaction was run without the catalyst and without the catalyst and hydrogen gas, a small amount of hexane/hexene isomers were still produced in each case. However, when the reaction was run without the acid and the catalyst, the alcohol remained unreacted. In the presence of just the catalyst and hydrogen gas, the solvent was hydrogenated. All four cases, however, indicated that the presence of hydroiodic acid was necessary for the hydrogenation of the alcohol. 3.5 Additional Analyses In an attempt to increase the generation of hexanes/hexenes from our system, we performed a few experiments that involved increasing the iodide concentration of the solution to see if the hydrogenation was dependent on the amount of iodide in the system.
28 22 Table 11: Effect of iodide in the conversion of alcohols to alkanes Reactant Acid Catalyst H 2 Product Yield (%) 3-hexanol HI RhCl psi Hexane/hexenes iodohexane 90.4 *In the experiment, 1 ml of toluene lined the inside of both the bomb and glass liner. The bomb was filled with 500 psi H 2 and 500 psi Ar. The bomb was placed in an oil bath overnight (12 hours) at 100 C. *Conversion based on gas chromatography. With the addition of sodium iodide to the reaction mixture, the yield of hydrogenated products remained low; the sodium iodide appeared to have little to no effect.
29 23 Chapter 4 Conclusions With the results tabulated above, the hydrogenation of alcohols was successful in very small yield. By changing the substrate, catalyst, and solvent conditions, the results did not appear to vary widely, and selective deoxygenation was not perceived. In future work, studies could be done computationally and experimentally on the activity of RhCl 3. For instance, is there complexation with this catalyst that may hinder the hydrogenation of the iodoalkane? Perhaps a stable complex is being formed in our hydrogenation attempts. Additionally, is there even a need for a catalyst? When we tested the necessity of reagents, it appeared that the reaction would only proceed with hydroiodic acid. In this case, either an acid or the presence of iodine is a necessity. Further studies on the presence of iodine, perhaps with iodine salts and no acid, would help to resolve these questions.
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31 25 Appendix: Spectral Data Mass Spectrum: 2-iodohexane Mass Spectrum: 3-iodohexane
32 26 Mass Spectrum: 1,4-diiodobutane Mass Spectrum: 1,3-diiodopropane Mass Spectrum: 1,5-diiodopentane
33 27 Mass Spectrum: 1-iodohexane Mass Spectrum: 1,6-diiodohexane
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