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oxidation to formaldehyde with Fe-catalysts supported on silica or incorporated into the support.
Catal Commun 9:864–869
49. Zuo Z, Ramírez PJ, Senanayake SD, Liu P, Rodriguez JA (2016) Low-temperature conversion
of methane to methanol on CeO x /Cu 2 O catalysts: water controlled activation of the C-H Bond.
J Am Chem Soc 138:13810–13813
50. Lustemberg PG, Palomino RM, Gutiérrez RA, Grinter DC, Vorokhta M, Liu Z, Ramírez PJ,
Matolín V, Ganduglia-Pirovano MV, Senanayake SD, Rodriguez JA (2018) Direct conversion
of methane to methanol on Ni-Ceria surfaces: metal–support interactions and water-enabled
catalytic conversion by site blocking. J Am Chem Soc 140:7681–7687
51. Narsimhan K, Iyoki K, Dinh K, Román-Leshkov Y (2016) Catalytic oxidation of methane
into methanol over copper-exchanged zeolites with oxygen at low temperature. ACS Cent Sci
2:424–429
52. Liu HF, Liu RS, Liew KY, Jonson RE, Lusnford JH (1984) Partial oxidation of methane by
nitrous oxide over molybdenum on silica. J Am Chem Soc 106:4117–4121
53. Najafian A, Cundari TR (2017) Methane C-H activation via 3d metal oxide complexes with
potentially redox-noninnocent pincer ligands: density functional theory study. Inorg Chem
56:12282–12290
54. Najafian A, Cundari TR (2018) C-H activation methane by nickel methoxide complexes: A
density functional theory study. Organometallics 37:3111–3121
55. Driscoll DJ, Martir W, Wang JW, Lusnford JH (1985) Formation of gas-phase methyl radicals
over MgO. J Am Chem Soc 107:58–63
56. Grecker D, Motagamwala AH, Rivera-Dones KR, Miller JB, Hiuber GW, Mavrikakis M,
Dumesic JA (2017) Methane conversion to ethylene and aromatics on PtSn catalysts. ACS
Catal 7:2088–2100
57. Olah GA, Sclosberg RH (1968) Chemistry in super acids. I. Hydrogen exchange and polycondensation of methane and alkane in FSO 3 H-SbF 5 (“magic acid”) solution. Protonation
of alkanes and the intermediacy of CH 5
+ and related hydrocarbon ions. The high chemical
reactivity of “paraffins” in ionic solution reaction. J Am Chem Soc 90:2726–2727
58. Baba T, Inazu K (2006) Heterolytic dissociation of C-H bond of methane over Ag+-exchanged
zeolites and conversion of methane into higher hydrocarbons in the presence of ethylene or
benzene. Chem Lett 35:142–147
59. Baba T, Komatsu N, Sawada H, Yamaguchi Y, Takahashi T, Sugisawa H, Ono Y (1999) 1 H
magic angle spinning NMR evidence for dissociate adsorption of hydrogen on Ag + -exchanged
A- and Y-zeolites. Langmuir 15:7894–7896
60. Guo J, Lou H, Zheng X (2009) Energy-efficient coaromatization of methane and propane. J
Natural Gas Chem 18:260–272