Mechanistic study of propylbenzenes formation over zeolite catalysts

A.V. Smirnov, A.A. Shashkov, I.I. Ivanova, B.V. Romanovsky, Z.Gabelica

"Proc. 12th International Zeolite Conference", Materials Research Society, p. 1207, (1999)

ABSTRACT. Alkylation of benzene with propylene and cumene isomerization over acidic Ga-MFI zeolite was investigated. Both direct alkylation and secondary isomerization of cumene formed as a primary alkylation product account for the formation of n-propylbenzene. Cumene isomerization to n-propylbenzene proceeds as an intermolecular transfer of propyl group.

Laboratory of Kinetics and Catalysis