Patent ID: 9579632
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: B01J,C07C,Y02P

Claim:
1. A process for the dehydrogenation of a ketone to an aromatic alcohol, the process comprising contacting a feed comprising a cycloaliphatic alcohol or ketone under dehydrogenation conditions with catalyst composition comprising: (i) a support; (ii) a dehydrogenation component comprising at least one metal or compound thereof selected from Groups 6 to 10 of the Periodic Table of Elements; and (iii) tin or a tin compound, wherein the tin is present in an amount of 0.01 wt % to about 0.25 wt %, the wt % based upon the total weight of the catalyst composition; and further wherein said dehydrogenation conditions comprise a temperature of about 250° C. to about 500° C., a pressure of about 100 kPa to about 3550 kPa, a weight hourly space velocity of about 0.2 hr −1 to 50 hr −1 , and a hydrogen to cyclohexanone-containing feed molar ratio of about 2 to about 20.