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Activation of Methane by Gaseous Metal Ions
Author(s) -
Schröder Detlef
Publication year - 2010
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.200906518
Subject(s) - methane , catalysis , oxidative coupling of methane , chemistry , work (physics) , novelty , coupling (piping) , ion , metal , chemical physics , inorganic chemistry , materials science , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , physics , metallurgy , philosophy , theology
Cold methane coupling : Recent experiments with trapped Au 2 + clusters reveal a catalytic cycle for the dehydrogenative C–C coupling of methane to give ethene at temperatures between 200 and 300 K (see scheme). The key novelty of the work is the explicit exploration of the multicollisional regime, which represents an important step to bridge the pressure gap between model studies and real catalysis.