Natural gas Carbon–hydrogen bond activation

naturally occurring methane not utilized chemical feedstock, despite abundance , low cost. current technology makes prodigious use of methane steam reforming produce syngas, mixture of carbon monoxide , hydrogen. syngas used in fischer-tropsch reactions make longer carbon chain products or methanol, 1 of important industrial chemical feedstocks. intriguing methods convert these hydrocarbons involves c-h activation. periana, example, reported complexes containing late transition metals, such pt, pd, au, , hg, react methane (ch4) in h2so4 yield methyl bisulfate. process has not been implemented commercially.