Direct Room‐Temperature Conversion of Methane into Protonated Formaldehyde: The Gas‐Phase Chemistry of Mercury among the Zinc Triad Oxide Cations | Zendy

Yue Lei | Zendy; Zhou Shaodong | Zendy; Sun Xiaoyan | Zendy; Schlangen Maria | Zendy; Schwarz Helmut | Zendy

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Direct Room‐Temperature Conversion of Methane into Protonated Formaldehyde: The Gas‐Phase Chemistry of Mercury among the Zinc Triad Oxide Cations

Author(s) -

Yue Lei,

Zhou Shaodong,

Sun Xiaoyan,

Schlangen Maria,

Schwarz Helmut

Publication year - 2018

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.201712405

Subject(s) - formaldehyde , methane , mercury (programming language) , zinc , chemistry , protonation , inorganic chemistry , gas phase , triad (sociology) , oxide , environmental chemistry , organic chemistry , ion , psychology , psychoanalysis , computer science , programming language

In thermal reactions of methane with diatomic metal oxides [MO] .+ of the zinc triad (M=Zn, Cd, Hg), protonated formaldehyde [CH 2 OH] + is generated as the major product only for the [HgO] .+ /CH 4 couple. Mechanistic insight is provided by high‐level quantum‐chemical calculations, and relativistic effects are suggested to be the root cause for the unexpected thermal production of [CH 2 OH] + from [HgO] .+ /CH 4 .

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