1. 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.