Eg. Kliger et al., HOMOGENEOUS AND SUPPORTED CATALYSTS FOR ALPHA-OLEFIN HYDROGENATION BASED ON COMPLEXES OF PLATINUM TETRACHLORIDE WITH ALIPHATIC-AMINES, Kinetics and catalysis, 36(4), 1995, pp. 500-503
A new efficient catalyst for cr-olefin hydrogenation that exhibits the
catalytic activity without additional treatment with a reducing agent
is obtained by the interaction of PtCl4 with tri-n-octylamine. Molecu
lar hydrogen and ethanol are found to promote the catalytically active
complex. On the basis of the IR spectroscopic investigation, a likely
structure of the synthesized complex is proposed. A highly active het
erogenized platinum-containing catalyst for the hydrogenation of termi
nal double bonds is prepared by supporting a homogeneous system on gam
ma-Al2O3.