Issue 13, 2003
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Chemical Communications

Direct catalytic sulfonation of methane with SO2 to methanesulfonic acid (MSA) in the presence of molecular O2

Sudip Mukhopadhyaya  and  Alexis T. Bell*a  

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a Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
E-mail: bell@cchem.berkeley.edu
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Tel: 1 510 642 1536

Abstract

Methane is transformed selectively to methanesulfonic acid at low temperature by liquid-phase sulfonation of methane with SO2 and O2 in the presence of Pd- and Cu-salts as the catalysts.

Graphical abstract: Direct catalytic sulfonation of methane with SO2 to methanesulfonic acid (MSA) in the presence of molecular O2

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B303561A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Apr 2003
Accepted
12 May 2003
First published
03 Jun 2003

Chem. Commun., 2003, 1590-1591

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Direct catalytic sulfonation of methane with SO2 to methanesulfonic acid (MSA) in the presence of molecular O2

S. Mukhopadhyay and A. T. Bell, Chem. Commun., 2003, 1590 DOI: 10.1039/B303561A

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