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Activation of Methane
Author(s) -
Schwarz Helmut
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199108201
Subject(s) - dehydrogenation , methane , holy grail , atom (system on chip) , chemistry , condensation , ligand (biochemistry) , metal , organic chemistry , physics , thermodynamics , catalysis , computer science , biochemistry , receptor , world wide web , embedded system
The attempts to functionalize the alkanes was once dubbed the “search for the chemist's Holy Grail” by D. H. R. Barton. The controlled transformation of methane into “more valuable” products is of extreme economic importance and a scientific challenge, since not even today are all aspects of the activation of methane understood. Trikura and Beauchamp recently observed that slow ligand condensation follows the dehydrogenation of methane by some metals, leading to the coupling of several CH 2 units [Eq. (a)], that is, only one metal atom need be involved.