Optimization of the Reaction of Catalytic Cycloalkylation of Phenol with Cyclohexene

Abstract

The paper presents the results of studies of the reaction of the interaction of phenol with cyclohexene (CH) in the presence of a Zeolite-Y catalyst impregnated with phosphoric acid and studying the dependence on the yield and selectivity of the target product on various parameters. As a result of the study of the phenol cycloalkylation by cyclohexene, optimal conditions were found, the yield of which is 81.6 % of theory for the taken CH, and the selectivity is 94.0 % for the target product. The developed mathematical model of the processes of the interaction of phenol with cyclohexene in the form of a regression polynomial made it possible to find the optimal values ​​of the input variables.