Process for oxidation of monosaccharides

摘要

Monosaccharides are oxidized by an oxygen-containing gas in the presence of a special palladium-carbon catalyst which is prepared by adsorbing palladium on active carbon at a temperature lower than 60 DEG C while the active carbon is suspended in an aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide or carbonate and then reducing the palladium with formaldehyde.