Monitoring of the C-13-label scrambling from the position 3 to the position 1 in the C-13-labeled propene adsorbed on zinc oxide has been performed with H-1 and C-13 solid state NMR in situ. This allowed us to characterize the dynamics of a double bond shift reaction in adsorbed propene, and derive the kinetic parameters of this reaction, which were not earlier available without using solid state NMR and C-13-labeling of the olefin. (C) 2014 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.