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.

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