“…In agreement with previous work [10,11], further experiments showed that, under our experimental conditions, biphenyl did not trans- form into cyclohexylbenzene, which means that cyclohexylbenzene was produced from tetrahydrodibenzothiophene by a distinct pathway. Consequently, it can be concluded that the transformation of dibenzothiophene occurs through two parallel reactions (Scheme 1): (i) direct desulfurization (DDS) yielding biphenyl, and (ii) desulfurization after hydrogenation (HYD), yielding ®rst tetrahydrodibenzothiophene, then cyclohexylbenzene.…”