| abstract |
The present invention provides a method for selectively producing an alcohol by efficiently hydrogenating a lactone. The present invention is a method for producing an alcohol, the method including hydrogenating a substrate lactone represented by Formula (1), in the presence of a catalyst described below, to produce an alcohol that is represented by Formula (2). n In the formulae, R represents a divalent hydrocarbon group which may have a hydroxyl group. n The catalyst comprises:n metal species including M 1 and M 2 ; and a support supporting the metal species, and wherein M 1 is rhodium, platinum, ruthenium, iridium, or palladium; M 2 is tin, vanadium, molybdenum, tungsten, or rhenium; and the support is hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite, hydrotalcite, or ZrO 2 . |