Díaz-Urrutia and Ott (Reports, 22 March 2019, p. 1326) report a selective conversion of methane to methanesulfonic acid that is proposed to occur by a cationic chain reaction in which CH adds to sulfur trioxide (SO) to form CH-S(O)O This mechanism is not plausible because of the solvent reactivity of CH , the non-nucleophilicity of the sulfur atom of SO, and the high energy of CH-S(O)O.
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