Mononuclear metavanadate catalyses gas phase oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde employing dioxygen as the terminal oxidant.
Multistage mass spectrometry experiments reveal a sequence of gas phase reactions for the oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde with a mononuclear oxo vanadate anion as the catalyst and dioxygen as the terminal oxidant.
Waters
Tom
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School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
Khairallah
George N
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Wimala
Samantha A S Y
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Ang
Yien C
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O'Hair
Richard A J
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Wedd
Anthony G
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