Question

How does dehydrogenation relate to oxidation?

Answer 1

Oxidation is the removal of electrons right?

Answer 2

Yeah and dehydrogenation is the removal of hydrogen. So it's similar in terms of removing an ion?

Answer 3

i'm not sure i follow "removing an ion"

Answer 4

Oh what I meant was that since dehydrogenation is removing H, they will lose an electron since hydrogen has one electron. And then oxidation is losing an electron so that ion would become a cation. That's what I was thinking.

Answer 5

oh okay, then yes, that's right

Answer 6

Ok, thank you!

Answer 7

no problem