Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77842, USA.
Abstract
Díaz-Urrutia and Ott (Reports, 22 March 2019, p. 1326) report a selective conversion of methane to methanesulfonic acid that is proposed to occur by a cationic chain reaction in which CH
3
+
adds to sulfur trioxide (SO
3
) to form CH
3
–S(O)
2
O
+
. This mechanism is not plausible because of the solvent reactivity of CH
3
+
, the non-nucleophilicity of the sulfur atom of SO
3
, and the high energy of CH
3
–S(O)
2
O
+
.
Funder
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Cited by
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