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Under the experimental conditions of the Orito reaction the individual hydrogenation and the competitive hydrogenations of three binary mixtures of methyl benzoylformate (MBF), pyruvic aldehyde dimethyl acetal (PA) and 2,2-diethoxyacetophenone (DAP) on platinum–alumina catalysts modified by cinchonidine, cinchonine, quinine and quinidine (Pt–CD, Pt–CN, Pt–QN, Pt–QD) were studied for the first time using continuous-flow fixed-bed reactor system. Conversions of chiral (Cc) and racemic (Cr) hydrogenations of all three compounds and enantioselectivities (ee) were determined under the same experimental conditions (under 4 MPa H2 pressure, at room temperature using toluene/AcOH 9/1 as solvent).The order of the rates of the enantioselective hydrogenations of the three substrates studied is MBF > PA > DAP, and the order of their ee values is MBF ~ PA > DAP. The hydrogenation rate and the effect of rate on ee depend on the structure of the cinchona used: hydrogenation of MBF and PA may produce ee values over 90 %, however, the ee values were conspicuously low in the presence of Pt–QN and especially of Pt–QD catalysts. In the chiral hydrogenation of DAP considering racemic hydrogenation rate decrease (Cc/Cr < 1) takes place instead of rate enhancement over all four catalysts. The new experimental data supported the so far known fundamental rules of the Orito reaction based on batch studies.
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Financial support by the Hungarian National Science Foundation (OTKA Grant K 72065) is highly appreciated. The study was supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Gy. Szőllősi).
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Szőllősi, G., Makra, Z., Fekete, M. et al. Heterogeneous Enantioselective Hydrogenation in a Continuous-flow Fixed-bed Reactor System: Hydrogenation of Activated Ketones and Their Binary Mixtures on Pt–Alumina–Cinchona Alkaloid Catalysts. Catal Lett 142, 889–894 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-012-0846-9
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