@article{969705f7b3b24c5a8397ffff686d31a7,
title = "Direct conversion of methane into formaldehyde mediated by [Al 2O 3] .+ at room temperature",
abstract = "Just one step: Reactivity studies demonstrate that in the gas phase [Al 2O 3] .+ clusters can efficiently conduct the direct conversion of CH 4 into CH 2O at room temperature (see scheme). The reaction mechanism is highly complex involving oxygen-atom transfer and a double hydrogen-atom transfer.",
keywords = "density functional calculations, gas-phase reactions, mass spectrometry, radical ions, reaction mechanisms",
author = "Wang, {Zhe Chen} and Nicolas Dietl and Robert Kretschmer and Ma, {Jia Bi} and Thomas Weiske and Maria Schlangen and Helmut Schwarz",
year = "2012",
month = apr,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1002/anie.201200015",
language = "English",
volume = "51",
pages = "3703--3707",
journal = "Angewandte Chemie - International Edition",
issn = "1433-7851",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Ltd",
number = "15",
}