verb
- to remove hydrogen from (a compound) by chemical reaction
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- The catalyst helps dehydrogenate the organic compound at high temperatures.
- Industrial processes often dehydrogenate alkanes to produce alkenes.
- The enzyme can dehydrogenate alcohols to form aldehydes.
- Researchers studied how to dehydrogenate methane efficiently.
- The reaction will dehydrogenate the substrate in the presence of oxygen.
- Scientists use platinum catalysts to dehydrogenate hydrocarbons.