>>14022746good thinking but carbon-hydrogen molecule orbitals hybridisize to comparatively low energy states, which makes the bond very stable in comparison to other hydrogen donors.
i'd imagine if you put enough energy into this you can easily dehydrogenate plastic or carbon compounds in general. it's done with enzymes in organisms and with metal catalysts in the chemical industry (to be precise H2 molecules are separated here). highly endothermic though.
the problem is that bases as hydrogen acceptors would have to accept them as H+, protons, which leaves a negative carbon, and that is energetically so impractical that it just steals the proton right back. the net gain of giving the base a proton doesn't balance the negative charge of the carbon atom that can have low energy hybrid orbitals.
