OE45 Selective C-C bond cleavage in cyclic hydrocarbons catalyzed by Ir

Wednesday, June 8, 2011: 3:40 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 2 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
David W. Flaherty1, Alper Uzun1 and Enrique Iglesia2, (1)Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
This work reveals that the level of hydrogenation of surface intermediates, as dictated by the hydrocarbon structure and the prevalent H2 pressure, and the concentration of reactive surface hydrogen determine turnover rates and selectivities during hydrogenolysis reactions of aromatics and cycloalkanes. 

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