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The ozone sensitized oxidative conversion of methane to methanol and ethane to ethanol

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The reaction of O2, O3, and CH4 or C2H6 of 7.76, 0.24 and 92% of the hydrocarbon respectively (residence time of 8.8 min) at 1 atm, and 400 °C for CH4 and 300 °C for C2H6 gave CO, CO2, H2O, CH2O and CH3OH from CH4 and in addition CH4, C2H4, CH3CHO and C2H5OH from C2H6. No reaction occurred when O3 was absent indicating that the partial oxidation was sensitized (initiated) by the oxygen atoms formed by the decomposition of ozone.

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    H. D. Gesser, N. R. Hunter & P. A. Das

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Gesser, H.D., Hunter, N.R. & Das, P.A. The ozone sensitized oxidative conversion of methane to methanol and ethane to ethanol. Catal Lett 16, 217–221 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00764374

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