| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing 2-indanol which is useful as an intermediate for a pharmaceutical, a pesticide or the like, at high yield with high purity by using 2-indanone as a raw material compound.SOLUTION: A 2-indanone solution using alcohol as a solvent and adjusted so as to have pH of 4-7 by containing an organic acid is catalytically reduced with hydrogen in the presence of a nickel catalyst, to thereby produce 2-indanol. The alcohol is a 1-4C lower alcohol, and the organic acid is one kind or more selected from acetic acid and propionic acid. Though a method disclosed in a prior-art literature in which lithium aluminum hydride or sodium borohydride is used as a reducing agent is not an industrial processing, this method is an industrial processing because a high-yield high-purity production method is provided. |
