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Inside Back Cover: Light‐Driven C−H Oxygenation of Methane into Methanol and Formic Acid by Molecular Oxygen Using a Perfluorinated Solvent (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 8/2018)
Author(s) -
Ohkubo Kei,
Hirose Kensaku
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201800576
Subject(s) - formic acid , oxidizing agent , methanol , methane , chemistry , oxygen , chlorine dioxide , photochemistry , solvent , oxygenation , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , ecology , biology
Methane oxygenation by O 2 occurred in a two‐phase system comprising perfluorohexane and water under ambient conditions. In their Communication on page 2126 ff., K. Ohkubo and K. Hirose show that the chlorine dioxide radical (ClO 2 • ) acts as an efficient oxidizing agent in the aerobic oxygenation of methane to methanol and formic acid under photoirradiation. The yields of methanol and formic acid were 14% and 85%, respectively.