I found this in an old Norwegian encyclopedia (sp?), what do you think?

(CH3)2CHOH + O2 -> (CH3)2CO + H2O2

Isopopanol + oksygen -> Aceton + Hydrogen peroxide

Sounds awfully nice (Horray!), too nice for me to be belived as a matter of fact. There must be some kind of special contitions to be fulfilled, or else I think people would use this process more often. My book says that it used to be a common industrial process. Anyone know anything more about this?

There most likely are some special requirements. When you first see the reaction HNO3 + methanol--> nitromethan it looks great, however the reaction must be carried out at high pressure and temparature and the reactents must be at the temparature and pressure for only 1/10 of a second.. Not the most simple procedure.

Found this at http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~che250/group_project/phase_2.htm

"Hydrogen peroxide production: air is bubbled through a mixture of isopropanol and hydrogen peroxide at 5 atm and 120°C. The reaction mixture is diluted with water and fractionated to yield hydrogen peroxide solution, acetone, and unreacted isopropanol for recycle."

5 atm should't be too hard, sholud it?