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The partial oxidation of methane to methanol is one of the most promising routes of natural gas conversion into liquid hydrocarbons. The process may be accomplished both catalytically and at homogeneous conditions. In the last case the high pressures exceeding 50 atm necessary for appropriate product yield.1 Due to the most catalytic works the process has heterogeneous — homogeneous nature2 and includes steps of both heterogeneous and homogeneous radical generation and their subsequent transformation. It was demonstrated that at pressures above 30 atm the process is practically independent of the nature of surface and introduction of catalyst do not rise up efficiency of the process.3,4
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Arutyunov, V.S., Basevich, V.Y., Vedeneev, V.I. (1995). Some Features of High Pressure Methane Oxidation to Methanol and Formaldehyde. In: Bhasin, M.M., Slocum, D.W. (eds) Methane and Alkane Conversion Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1807-5_30
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