Acetic Acid → Benzaldehyde

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The experiment was carried out without the addition of manganese to check its effect on the conversion and selectivity in the liquid phase oxidation of toluene with following the procedure given in Example 1. The reactor was charged with toluene 10.0 gm, ammonium metavanadate 0.131 gm, sodium bromide 0.065 gm and acetic acid 50.0 gm. After flushing with nitrogen, 5% oxygen was introduced to a pressure of 55 bar and the reaction was carried out at 120° C. In this experiment, only 2.7% conversion of toluene and 72.3% and 27.7% selectivity were obtained for benzaldehyde and benzyl alcohol, respectively.

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