Sulfur as a selective 'soft' oxidant for catalytic methane conversion probed by experiment and theory

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 104-109

  Zhu, Qingjun ^a   Wegener, Staci L ^a   Xie, Chao ^a   Uche, Obioma ^b   Neurock, Matthew ^b   Marks, Tobin J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; METHANE; OXIDIZING AGENT; OXYGEN; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

CATALYSIS; ETHYLENES; METHANE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873850835     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1527     Document Type: Article

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