Shale gas is revitalizing America’s chemical industry and shifting ethylene production from oil-based naphtha to shale-derived ethane, causing a short supply of propylene. Oxidative dehydrogenation of
Ethane occurs as a trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, currently having a concentration at sea level of 0.5 ppb, though its preindustrial concentration is likely to have been only around 0.25 part pe
Three m-substituted phenol derivatives, each with a labile benzylic alcohol group and bearing either protoadamantyl 4, homoadamantyl 5, or a cyclohexyl group 6, were synthesized and their thermal acid
