METHOD FOR PRODUCING KETONE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for industrially and advantageously producing a ketone without requiring high temperatures in the process by reacting an alcohol with a methylketone. SOLUTION: This method for producing a ketone expressed by formula (III) (wherein R1 and R2 are each the same or different and express alkyls) is to react an alcohol expressed by formula (I) with a methylketone expressed by formula (II) in the presence of a nickel catalyst carried on a support.