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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 131, Issue 47, Pages 17110-17115Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja903930e
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- Chevron Energy Technology Company
- DOE-EFRC
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation
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Selective, direct conversion of methane to methanol might seem an impossible task since the C-H bond energy of methane is 105 kcal mol(-1) compared to the C-H bond energy for methanol of 94. We show here that the Catalytica catalyst is successful because the methanol is protected as methyl bisulfate, which is substantially less reactive than methanol toward the catalyst. This analysis suggests a limiting performance for systems that operate by this type of protection that is well above the Catalytica system.
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