Wacker process

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The Wacker process or the Hoechst-Wacker process (named after the chemical companies of the same name) is an industrial chemical reaction: the aerobic oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde in the presence of catalytic, aq.(l) palladium(II) chloride and copper(II) chloride.

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