Thermocatalytic formation of molecular hydrogen and cyclo-octene from cyclo-octane by rhodium complexes

1 January 1990

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 10,p. 757-758
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39900000757

Abstract

Dehydrogenation of cyclo-octane, yielding cyclo-octene and molecular hydrogen, proceeds catalytically with the Wilkinson complex RhClL₃ or with its dimeric homologue without photo-irradiation under reflux conditions.

Keywords

CYCLO OCTANE
DIMERIC
PROCEEDS
RHODIUM
THERMOCATALYTIC
WILKINSON
RHCLL3
REFLUX
PHOTO

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