Thermal isomerization of cis- or trans-2-butene. The unimolecular elimination of hydrogen from cis-2-butene around 500°C

✍ Scribed by D. Masson; C. Richard; R. Martin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 300 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0538-8066
• DOI: 10.1002/kin.550080106

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

An analytical and kinetic study of the thermal reaction of cis‐ or trans‐2‐butene has been performed in a static system over the temperature range of 480–550°C and at a low extent of reaction and initial pressures of 10–100 torr.

The rate constant of the unimolecular cis–trans isomerization of cis‐2‐butene, determined under the conditions

(2.3 RT in cal/mole) is in good agreement with previous measurements made at lower pressures.

A comparison between the formation rates of hydrogen from the thermal reactions of cis‐ and trans‐2 butene around 500°C leads to the rate constant value

(2.3 RT in cal/mole) for the unimolecular 1,4hydrogen elimination from __cis__2butene.