Production of hydrogen peroxide

摘要

Hydrogen peroxide is produced by a process which uses solid, insoluble, supported anthraquinone as catalyst. The catalyst is reduced to supported anthrahydroquinone using a hydrogen-donating organic substrate such as an alcohol, followed by reaction with oxygen, suitably photochemical reaction, to regenerate anthraquinone and to form hydrogen peroxide, which can be solvent extracted from the solid catalyst.