Mar 19 2013 Name of Acid. Chemical Formula. pKa. Hydrogen iodide. HI. –10.0. Hydrogen bromide. HBr. –9.0. Hydrogen chloride. HCl. –8.0. Sulfuric acid.
The actual pKa values agree with this prediction: CH4. pKa 51 (weakest acid) NH3 pKa 38
One method to increase the favorability of methane activation involves studying how various transition metals and supporting ligands impact the pKa of a ligated
Aug 10 2020 acids
The CH4 is such a weak acid (pKa~48) that it is nigh on impossible to deprotonate. If you mixed the reagents on the right together the reaction would go
Nov 19 2019 basis sets are used to predict the pKa for the deprotonation of methane in a 3d metal ion adduct
Jul 5 2021 Acid?base reaction used to obtain the free energy barriers
CH4 is an extremely weak acid (pKa = 50); it will almost never give up H+; its conjugate base CH3. –
May 19 2020 ligand-metal coordination type – also impacted the methane activation barrier (dG‡). High variations in the activation barriers and pKa ...
The CH4 is such a weak acid. (pKa~48) that it is nigh on impossible to deprotonate. A 12 unit pKa difference between acids means.