General Characteristics of Butadiene Hydrogenation

The principal parameters that characterise this reaction are (i) the selectivity to the sum of all three butenes Slot, and (ii) the fraction of the butenes that 

We begin by looking at the limited work carried out on single crystals (Sections 8.3.2 and 8.3.3), and then more to supported metals (Section 8.3.4) and finally to other unsupported forms (Section 8.3.5). Larger linear, branched and cyclic molecules containing two or more conjugated double bonds are dealt with in Section 8.4. 

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