ISOMERIZATION OF HYDROCARBONS EDITH WILSON' Chicago, Illinois Received April 10, 1997
Isomerization of hydrocarbons affords a study of intramolecular rearrangements in molecules which have only two different atoms. This type of reaction provides systems inducive to fundamental theoretical research, since the variable factors may be reduced to a minimum. Furthermore, it may play an important part in the petroleum industry, owing to the superior qualities of branched-chain to straight-chain isomers in gasoline, the many isomers present in the naphthene fractions, and the possibility of making available to industry many hydrocarbons which in the form of their less desirable isomers
