To provide a method for producing a cycloalkanol and a cycloalkanone by converting a saturated or unsaturated 6-12C cyclic hydrocarbon having an epoxy group (hereafter, called as an epoxycycloalkane) by contacting with hydrogen in the presence of a nickel catalyst, wherein, even if catalytic reaction is repeated, hydrocarbon byproducts such as cycloalkenes, cycloalkadienes and cycloalkatrienes do not increase and the cycloalkanol and the cycloalkanone are produced in high yield, i.e., the nickel catalyst can be long-lived.
This method for producing a cycloalkanol and a cycloalkanone comprises contacting an epoxycycloalkane with hydrogen in the presence of a nickel catalyst and is characterized by comprising using the epoxycycloalkane containing ≤0.2 wt.% peroxide.
NAKAMURA YASUO
YAMAZAKI OSAMU
MANABE TAKUMI
FUKUDA YASUNORI
