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Sustainable methane utilization technology via photocatalytic halogenation with alkali halides.


ABSTRACT: Methyl halides are versatile platform molecules, which have been widely adopted as precursors for producing value-added chemicals and fuels. Despite their high importance, the green and economical synthesis of the methyl halides remains challenging. Here we demonstrate sustainable and efficient photocatalytic methane halogenation for methyl halide production over copper-doped titania using alkali halides as a widely available and noncorrosive halogenation agent. This approach affords a methyl halide production rate of up to 0.61 mmol h-1 m-2 for chloromethane or 1.08 mmol h-1 m-2 for bromomethane with a stability of 28 h, which are further proven transformable to methanol and pharmaceutical intermediates. Furthermore, we demonstrate that such a reaction can also operate solely using seawater and methane as resources, showing its high practicability as general technology for offshore methane exploitation. This work opens an avenue for the sustainable utilization of methane from various resources and toward designated applications.

SUBMITTER: Ma J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10014990 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Sustainable methane utilization technology via photocatalytic halogenation with alkali halides.

Ma Jun J   Zhu Can C   Mao Keke K   Jiang Wenbin W   Low Jingxiang J   Duan Delong D   Ju Huanxin H   Liu Dong D   Wang Kun K   Zang Yijing Y   Chen Shuangming S   Zhang Hui H   Qi Zeming Z   Long Ran R   Liu Zhi Z   Song Li L   Xiong Yujie Y  

Nature communications 20230314 1


Methyl halides are versatile platform molecules, which have been widely adopted as precursors for producing value-added chemicals and fuels. Despite their high importance, the green and economical synthesis of the methyl halides remains challenging. Here we demonstrate sustainable and efficient photocatalytic methane halogenation for methyl halide production over copper-doped titania using alkali halides as a widely available and noncorrosive halogenation agent. This approach affords a methyl ha  ...[more]

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