METHOD OF PRODUCING STRAIGHT-CHAIN ALKANES Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC C07C9/15 C07C5/03 B01J23/755 B82Y99/00 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a method of producing straight-chain alkanes of general formula Alk-CH₂-CH₃, where Alk=C₆H₁₃, C₈H₁₇. The method involves hydrogenation of an olefin with hydrogen on a nano-catalyst, and is characterised by that the olefin used is octene-1 or decene-1, and the nano-catalyst used is nickel nanoparticles obtained in situ by reducing nickel (II) chloride with lithium aluminium hydride in a tetrahydrofuran medium. The process is carried out at atmospheric pressure of hydrogen at temperature of 50-70°C for 7-8 hours, followed by separation of the end products.

EFFECT: use of the present method simplifies and reduces the cost of producing the desired compounds.

1 cl, 2 ex