Methane has been oxidized stoicheiometrically by cobalt(III) trifluoroacetate in CF3CO2H solution at 150–180 °C and 10–40 atm to give methyl trifluoroacetate in 90 ± 10% yield based on CoIII, which is reduced to CoII; in the presence of O2(1–5 atm) the reaction becomes catalytic with respect to the cobalt(III) salt, giving methyl trifluoroacetate as the sole product of the oxidation of methane by dioxygen.
M. N. Vargaftik, I. P. Stolarov and I. I. Moiseev, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1990, 1049 DOI: 10.1039/C39900001049
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