	US 12,139,449 B2
	Method and catalyst for producing alcohol
Takeshi Matsuo, Tokyo (JP); Yumiko Yoshikawa, Tokyo (JP); Naoyuki Sakamoto, Tokyo (JP); and Takayuki Aoshima, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/154,118.
Application 17/154,118 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/028633, filed on Jul. 22, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-137792 (JP), filed on Jul. 23, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0139398 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. C07C 29/136 (2006.01); B01J 23/14 (2006.01); B01J 23/36 (2006.01); C01G 25/02 (2006.01)

CPC C07C 29/136 (2013.01) [B01J 23/14 (2013.01); B01J 23/36 (2013.01); C01G 25/02 (2013.01); C01P 2006/12 (2013.01)]

18 Claims

1. An alcohol production method in which an alcohol is produced from a carbonyl compound, the method comprising producing an alcohol by using a catalyst, the catalyst including a metal component including rhenium having an average valence of 4 or less, wherein a content of a metal of groups 8 to 10 of the periodic table except iron and nickel included in the catalyst is less than 0.2 in terms of atomic mass ratio to the rhenium atoms, and a carrier supporting the metal component, the carrier including zirconium oxide.