Acetone → Cyclohexanol

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After adding Fe2O3 (1 g), Pd/silica (Pd content 1.3%, 1 g) and cyclohexane (5 g) to the mixture of acetone (20 ml) and acetic acid (1 ml), it was stirred in a flow of hydrogen and oxygen gases at the respective rate of 20 ml/min. As the result of reaction for 3 hours at 30° C. under atmospheric pressure, 3.13 mole % of cyclohexanol and 0.41 mole % cyclohexanone with the total yield of 3.54 mole % were obtained.

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