Highly selective skeletal isomerization of cyclohexene over zeolite-based catalysts for high-purity methylcyclopentene production

Abstract

Cyclohexane skeletal isomerisation is an important catalytic reaction, but generally involves a trade-off between catalyst activity and selectivity. Here zeolite-based catalysts improve the selectivity of this reaction towards methylcyclopentene while retaining good activity, attributed to the acidic, structural and morphological features of the optimized catalysts.