Gas-phase reactions between hydrocarbons and metal oxides: the aluminum monoxide + methane reaction from 590 to 1380 K
作者:David P. Belyung、Arthur Fontijn、Paul Marshall
DOI:10.1021/j100116a002
日期:1993.4
A recent ab inito study suggested that gaseous metal oxides can directly abstract H atoms from hydrocarbons, but with considerable barriers. To try to confirm the occurrence of such reactions, the title reaction has been studied in a high-temperature fast-flow reactor. The data are well described by the fitting expression k(590-1380 K) = 9.6 X 10(-39)(T/K)7.96 exp(2468 K/T) cm3 Molecule-1 s-1, with 2sigma precision limits varying with temperature from +/- 4% to +/- 12%. The corresponding 2sigma accuracy limits are about +/- 25%. Comparison of this result to further ab initio and conventional transition-state theory calculations suggests that direct abstraction indeed can occur at the higher temperatures but that one or more other channels, possibly involving AlO insertion into a C-H bond, dominate in the initial attack step. The potential implications of this work for catalytic conversion of methane to higher hydrocarbons are considered.