Methyl radicals in oxidative coupling of methane directly confirmed by synchrotron VUV photoionization mass spectroscopy

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Luo, Liangfeng ^a,b   Tang, Xiaofeng ^b   Wang, Wendong ^b   Wang, Yu ^b   Sun, Shaobo ^b   Qi, Fei ^b   Huang, Weixin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 84942907990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01625     Document Type: Article

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