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Investigation of the mechanism of dehydrogenation of cycloalkanes over Cu/Al₂O₃ catalyst

E.M. Ezzo, H.S. Mazhar, S.A. Ali, and N.A. Youssef

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract: The heterogeneous kinetics of conversion of methylcyclohexane and cyclohexane were studied on copper/alumina catalysts, using a flow technique under normal pressure. It was found that this process is not a simple process of intermediate formation of monomolecular catalytic complex, but instead, a polymolecular catalytic one, in which the decomposition of the polymolecular complex intermediate is the rate-determining step. The textural properties and X-ray diffraction were studied for the solid samples and the nature of the intermediate, heterogeneous catalytic complex, formed was discussed.

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Chemical Papers 45 (5) 625–641 (1991)