Observation of the oligomerization of propene in ZSM-5 at 293 K by neutron vibrational spectroscopy shows that the product species are linear alkyl chains. No evidence is found for the formation of branched products. The selective formation of linear alkyl chains is attributed to a confinement effect within the zeolite pore structure. A role for zeolite crystallite size, a controllable parameter within the catalyst preparative stage, in being able to influence the product composition in technically relevant olefin oligomerization reactions is considered.
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Hawkins, A. P., Zachariou, A., Collier, P., Ewings, R. A., Howe, R. F., Parker, S. F., & Lennon, D. (2019). Low-temperature studies of propene oligomerization in ZSM-5 by inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy. RSC Advances, 9(33), 18785–18790. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ra03568k
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