Affiliation:
1. Catalytica Advanced Technologies Inc., 430 Ferguson Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Abstract
Platinum catalysts are reported for the direct, low-temperature, oxidative conversion of methane to a methanol derivative at greater than 70 percent one-pass yield based on methane. The catalysts are platinum complexes derived from the bidiazine ligand family that are stable, active, and selective for the oxidation of a carbon-hydrogen bond of methane to produce methyl esters. Mechanistic studies show that platinum(II) is the most active oxidation state of platinum for reaction with methane, and are consistent with reaction proceeding through carbon-hydrogen bond activation of methane to generate a platinum-methyl intermediate that is oxidized to generate the methyl ester product.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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4. The oxidation of butane to maleic anhydride or acetic acid propane to acrylonitrile or isobutane to t -butyl hydroperoxide are atypical free-radical–based alkane autooxidation reactions that proceed in reasonable selectivities and yields (>10% per pass) because either the products are uniquely stable as in the case of maleic anhydride acetic acid and acrylonitrile or in the case of isobutane the reactivity of the tertiary C–H bond is significantly higher than those in the products.
5. The phrase “one-pass yield” is used to describe the yield of product generated without separation and recycle of the starting materials. This is analogous to the yield from a batch process. Conversion, selectivity, and yield are defined as %conversion≡ [CH4]initial−[CH4]final[CH4]initial×100 %selectivity to CH3OH≡ [CH3OH][CH4]initial–[CH4]final×100 %yield≡(%conversion)×(%selectivity) Periana R. A., et al., Science 259, 340 (1993); U.S. Patents 5,233,113 and 5,306,855.
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