Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ritu Ahuja

Alan Stuart Goldman

William L Schinski

Maurice S Brookhart

Zheng Huang

Amy H Roy

The invention provides methods and compositions useful for synthesizing alkylaromatics from an n-alkanes.

Aromatization or dehydrocyclization of N-alkanes using soluble transition metal complexes

A method of converting at least one first alkane to a mixture of at least one low molecular weight alkane (optionally also including additional lower and/or higher molecular weight alkanes) and at least one high molecular weight alkane, comprising: reacting a first alkane in the presence of dual catalyst system comprising a first catalyst (i.e., a hydrogen transfer catalyst and preferably an iridium pincer complex catalyst) and a second catalyst (i.e., a metathesis catalyst) to produce a mixture of low and high molecular weight alkanes.

Dual catalyst system for alkane metathesis

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Ritu Ahuja