00899 IUPAC Gold Book - catalytic reforming 10.1351/goldbook.C00899 C00899 current 1 A process for increasing the octane number of naphthas. It involves isomerization of alkanes, dehydrogenation of cyclohexanes to aromatic hydrocarbons, isomerization and dehydrogenation of alkylcyclopentanes, and dehydrocyclization of alkanes. alkanes https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00222 hydrocarbons https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/H02889 isomerization https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/I03295 PAC, 1976, 46, 71. 'Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units - Appendix II. Definitions, Terminology and Symbols in Colloid and Surface Chemistry. Part II: Heterogeneous Catalysis' on page 86 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac197646010071) https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C00899/html https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C00899/json https://dev.goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C00899/plain Citation: 'catalytic reforming' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.C00899 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-03-13T02:21:29+00:00