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SCIENCE
Volume 301, Issue 5634, Pages 814-818Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086466
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Acetic acid is an important petrochemical that is currently produced from methane ( or coal) in a three-step process based on carbonylation of methanol. We report a direct, selective, oxidative condensation of two methane molecules to acetic acid at 180 degreesC in liquid sulfuric acid. Carbon-13 isotopic labeling studies show that both carbons of acetic acid originate from methane. The reaction is catalyzed by palladium, and the results are consistent with the reaction occurring by tandem catalysis, involving methane C-H activation to generate Pd-CH3 species, followed by efficient oxidative carbonylation with methanol, generated in situ from methane, to produce acetic acid.
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