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Wacker process
The Wacker process or the Hoechst-Wacker process (named after the chemical companies of the same name) originally referred to the oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde by oxygen in water in the presence of a palladium tetrachloride catalyst Translated in part from :de:Wacker-Verfahren.. The same basic reaction is currently used to produce aldehydes and ketones from a number of alkenes.
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