Non-Oxidative Coupling Reaction of Methane to Ethane and Hydrogen Catalyzed by the Silica-Supported Tantalum Hydride: (≡SiO)2Ta−H
Journal of the American Chemical Society2008Vol. 130(15), pp. 5044–5045
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Daravong Soulivong, Sébastien Norsic, Mostafa Taoufik, Christophe Copéret, Jean Thivolle‐Cazat, Chakka Sudhakar, Jean‐Marie Basset
Abstract
Silica-supported tantalum hydride, (SiO)2Ta-H (1), proves to be the first single-site catalyst for the direct non-oxidative coupling transformation of methane into ethane and hydrogen at moderate temperatures, with a high selectivity (>98%). The reaction likely involves the tantalum-methyl-methylidene species as a key intermediate, where the methyl ligand can migrate onto the tantalum-methylidene affording the tantalum-ethyl.
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