Kinetic study of selective hydrogenation of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol over Pd-containing hypercrosslinked polystyrene

•Novel polymer-based Pd-containing catalysts were synthesized.•Kinetics of liquid-phase hydrogenation of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol was studied.•Thermodynamic factor was proposed to be responsible for high selectivity.

Kinetics of the selective hydrogenation of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol (MBY) to 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MBE) over Pd supported on hypercrosslinked polystyrene bearing amino-groups was studied at variation of the MBY-to-Pd ratio and reaction temperature. For the catalyst, containing 0.7 wt.% of Pd, optimal reaction conditions were found providing >98% of the MBE selectivity at 95% of the MBY conversion. Kinetic modeling and temperature variations as well as studies of a hydrogen consumption rate allowed us to suggest that a thermodynamic factor is most likely responsible for the high MBE selectivity.

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