title: New insights into the reaction mechanism and the rate-determining step of n-butane hydroisomerisation over reduced MoO3 catalysts.
abstract: The comparison of the proportions of the minor products formed during the hydroisomerisation of n-butane over reduced MoO3 with thermodynamic data demonstrates that a bifunctional mechanism operates and that the rate-determining step is the isomerisation of the linear butene intermediates to iso-butene.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. f.meunier@qub.ac.uk
authors.forename: Frederic C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Meunier