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Book Review: Industrial Organic Chemicals. By H. A. Wittcoff and B. G. Reuben

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
174 KB
Volume
35
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-8249

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Alkanes occur as such in natural gas and petroleum and accordingly are the cheapest raw materials for chemicals. They are the feedstocks for cracking (Sections 2.2.1, 2.2.2) and catalytic reforming (Section 2.2.3). Methane is the main source for synthesis gas (Section 10.4) via steam reforming. The