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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schröder, Detlef
• Schwarz, Helmut

Titel

Gas-Phase Activation of Methane by Ligated Transition-Metal Cations

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2008-11, Vol.105 (47), p.18114-18119

Ort / Verlag

United States: National Academy of Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Motivated by the search for ways of a more efficient usage of the large, unexploited resources of methane, recent progress in the gas-phase activation of methane by ligated transition-metal ions is discussed. Mass spectrometric experiments demonstrate that the ligands can crucially influence both reactivity and selectivity of transition-metal cations in bond-activation processes, and the most reactive species derive from combinations of transition metals with the electronegative elements fluorine, oxygen, and chlorine. Furthermore, the collected knowledge about intramolecular kinetic isotope effects associated with the activation of C-H(D) bonds of methane can be used to distinguish the nature of the bond activation as a mere hydrogen-abstraction, a metal-assisted mechanism or more complex reactions such as formation of insertion intermediates or σ-bond metathesis.