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A
Alkar
Morton, A.A., Magat, E.E., and Letsinger, R.L., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1947, 69, 950.
Morton, A.A., Ind. Eng. Chem., 1950, 42, 1488.
Alfol Also called the Conoco process and the Mühlheim process. The same name is used for the products.
A process for making linear primary alcohols, from C
2
to C
28
, from ethylene. The ethylene is reacted with
triethyl aluminum, yielding higher alkyl aluminums. These are oxidized with atmospheric oxygen under mild
conditions to aluminum alkoxides, which are then hydrolyzed by water to the corresponding alcohols:
2AlOR3HO 6ROH Al O
32 23
()+= +
Invented by K. Ziegler at the Max Planck Inst ...