Cis-Unsaturated fatty acid products by hydrogenation with chromium hexacarbonyl |
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Authors: | E N Frankel R A Awl J P Friedrich |
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Affiliation: | (1) Northern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research, Science and Education Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 61604 Peoria, Illinois |
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Abstract: | The use of Cr(CO)6 was investigated to convert polyunsaturated fats intocis unsaturated products. With methyl sorbate, the same order of selectivity for the formation ofcis-3-hexenoate was demonstrated for Cr(CO)6 as for the arene-Cr(CO)3 complexes. With conjugated fatty esters, the stereoselectivity of Cr(CO)6 toward thetrans, trans diene system was particularly high in acetone. However, this solvent was not suitable at elevated temperatures required to
hydrogenatecis, trans- andcis, cis-conjugated dienes (175 C) and nonconjugated soybean oil (200 C). Reaction parameters were analyzed statistically to optimize
hydrogenation of methyl sorbate and soybean oil. To achieve acceptable oxidative stability, it is necessary to reduce the
linolenate constituent of soybean oil below 1–3%. When this is done commercially with conventional heterogenous catalysts,
the hydrogenated products contain more than 15%trans unsaturation. By hydrogenating soybean oil with Cr(CO)6 (200 C, 500 psi H2, 1% catalyst in hexane solution), the product contains less than 3% each of linolenate andtrans unsaturation. Recycling of Cr(CO)6 catalyst by sublimation was carried through three hydrogenations of soybean oil, but, about 10% of the chromium was lost
in each cycle by decomposition. The hydrogenation mechanism of Cr(CO)6 is compared with that of arene-Cr(CO)3 complexes.
Presented in part at Seventh Conference on Catalysis in Organic Syntheses, Chicago, Illinois, June 5–7, 1978. |
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