Dehydration of isobutanol and the elimination of water from fuel alcohols

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 117, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 6724-6736

  Rosado Reyes, Claudette M ^a   Tsang, Wing ^a   Alecu, Ionut M ^b   Merchant, Shamel S ^b   Green, William H ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDRATION; ARRHENIUS EXPRESSIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; RATE COEFFICIENTS; SINGLE-PULSE SHOCK TUBES; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TRANSITION STATE THEORIES;

BUTENES; ISOMERS; RATE CONSTANTS; SHOCK TUBES;

DEHYDRATION;

EID: 84881446013     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4045513     Document Type: Article

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