Comparison between Oxidative Addition and σ-Bond Metathesis as Possible Mechanisms for the Catalytica Methane Activation Process by Platinum(II) Complexes: A Density Functional Theory Study
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Abstract
The Catalytica process converts methane to methyl bisulfate in good yield at relatively low temperature in fuming sulfuric acid and may help make methane a useful bulk chemical precursor. We have computationally examined the methane C−H activation step of the process. We find that the most likely catalyst for this step is either (bipyrimidine)Pt(OSO 3 H) + or (bipyrimidine)PtCl + . In the former case C−H activation takes place by σ-bond metathesis, whereas the latter involves C−H activation by an oxidative addition mechanism. It appears that the need to run the reaction at 180−220 °C stems from the fact that methane has to displace either one Cl - ligand or one HSO 4 - oxygen. Protonation of bipyrimidine by sulfuric acid appears unfavorable, although the resulting highly charged catalysts exhibit lower activation barriers.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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