 The abstract summarizes the research conducted on the use of pressure as a parameter to enable novel chemical catalytic processes and ambient temperature dehydrogenation of alkanes by palladium. The research found that this reaction followed a fundamentally different path to current commercial high-temperature low-pressure dehydrogenation processes with the palladium catalyst reversibly forming a hydride intermediate. This article was authored by Mungo Frost, Emma E. McBride, Dean Smith, and others.