Vibrational spectroscopy of intermediates of carbon-hydrogen bond activation by transition metal oxide cations

Direct, efficient oxidation of alkanes is a long-standing goal of catalysis. Gas phase FeO+ can convert methane to methanol and benzene to phenol under thermal conditions. Two key intermediates of these reactions are the [HO-Fe-R]+ insertion intermediate and Fe+(ROH) (R=CH3 or C6H5) exit channel com...

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Main Author: Altinay, Gokhan
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2010
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3427491