METHOD FOR REDUCING OXYGEN-CONTAINING ORGANIC COMPOUND WITH HYDROGEN

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for using a catalyst capable of improving the hydrogen reduction activity of an oxygen-containing organic compound and the selectivity for the corresponding hydride and further improving the catalyst life when reducing the oxygen-containing organic compound with hydrogen and producing the corresponding hydrogenated oxygen-containing organic compound. SOLUTION: A nickel catalyst is subjected to an alkali treatment and drying and then a treatment with hydrogen to provide an alkali-treated nickel catalyst as a catalyst used for a hydrogen reducing reaction of the oxygen-containing organic compound. Thereby, the oxygen-containing organic compound is reduced with hydrogen in the presence of the resultant alkali-treated nickel catalyst.