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Solvent effects in the kinetics of the enantioselective hydrogenation of ethyl pyruvate

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The influence of solvent on the kinetics of enantioselective hydrogenation of ethyl pyruvate by Pt/Al2O3/dihydrocinchonidine is reported. In a non‐polar solvent, toluene, the reaction is approximately zero order in substrate at constant hydrogen pressure, while under the same conditions and at the same substrate concentration, in the polar solvents ethanol and propylene carbonate the reaction shows a first‐order substrate concentration dependence. Fits to a Michaelis–Menten rate expression show that these differences are the expression of the relative magnitudes of the adsorption term in the rate expression, which in turn reflects the influence of the solvent on the adsorption–desorption processes which take place at the catalyst surface.

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Gamez, A., Köhler, J. & Bradley, J. Solvent effects in the kinetics of the enantioselective hydrogenation of ethyl pyruvate. Catalysis Letters 55, 73–77 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019078727850

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