PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ALCOHOL

摘要

A process for producing an alcohol or a w-hydroxy carboxylic ester, useful as surfactant, synthetic detergent, perfume, medicine and the like, at a high selectivity in a high yield, which process comprises hydrogenating a monocarboxylic acid or a dicarboxylic monoester under mild conditions in the presence of a catalyst composed of at least one group VIII element and at least one group VIb or VIIb element.