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ELEY1, in his article on ethylene hydrogenation, points out several treatments for developing the half-hydrogenated state, which then is converted to ethane. Basically these are: (1) the Polanyi and Greenhalgh2 treatment : which requires an essentially equivalent and ideal adsorption of hydrogen and ethylene on a uniform surface, and (2) the Twigg3 mechanism, which postulates that the reaction of hydrogen on ethylene-metal can occur only by reaction of the hydrogen with chemisorbed ethylene :
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Eley, D. D., in Emmett, P. H., Catalysis, 3, 49 (Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York, 1955).
Polanyi, M., and Greenhalgh, R. K., Trans. Farad. Soc., 35, 520 (1939).
Twigg, G. H., Disc. Farad. Soc., 8, 152 (1950).
Bond, G. C., and Newham, J., Trans. Farad. Soc., 56, 1851 (1960).
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SELWITZ, C. Mechanism of Ethylene Hydrogenation. Nature 194, 178 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194178a0
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