Premium
Room‐Temperature CH Bond Activation of Methane by Bare [P 4 O 10 ] .+
Author(s) -
Dietl Nicolas,
Engeser Marianne,
Schwarz Helmut
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200901596
Subject(s) - methane , reactivity (psychology) , nonmetal , chemistry , radical , oxide , cluster (spacecraft) , density functional theory , mass spectrometry , oxygen , metal , inorganic chemistry , stoichiometry , computational chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , organic chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , chromatography , computer science , programming language
No need for a metal : A combination of mass spectrometry and computational studies (density functional theory and coupled‐cluster methods) shows that [P 4 O 10 ] .+ is the first polynuclear nonmetal oxide cation that is capable of activating the CH bond of methane at room temperature (see picture). This process represents a further example in the reactivity of oxygen‐centered radicals.