The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(12)H(12)N(2)·C(7)H(7)NO(2), contains two 3-amino-benzoic acid mol-ecules and two 1,2-bis-(4-pyrid-yl)ethane mol-ecules. In the two 1,2-bis-(4-pyrid-yl)ethane mol-ecules, the dihedral angles between the pyridyl rings are 2.99 (9) and 46.78 (8)°. In the crystal, the mol-ecules associate through amine and carboxyl group N-H⋯O=C inter-actions between one...

The hydrogenolysis of ethane has been investigated on clean and Ni-covered Pt( 1 1 1) at reactant partial pressures between 0.5 and 4 Torr of ethane and between 80 and 270 Torr of hydrogen and for surface temperatures from 550 to 640 K. On clean Pt( 1 1 1) the hydrogenolysis reaction proceeds with an activation energy of 36.6 kcal/mol and reaction orders in C2H6 and H2 pressures of 1 and -1.8, ...