Efficient thermochemical alkane dehydrogenation and isomerization catalyzed by an iridium pincer complex
Abstract
(i–PrPCP)IrH2 is found to be a remarkably effective solution-phase catalyst for the ‘acceptorless’ thermochemical dehydrogenation of cycloalkanes (and isomerization in the case of cyclodecane), and the first such catalyst reported to effect the dehydrogenation of n-alkanes.