Around room temperature, photoinduced coupling of methane proceeds without any oxidant molecules on silica-alumina and alumina evacuated at 1073 K; many coupling products in the gaseous phase are obtained from silica-alumina, while most of products on alumina are obtained only through thermal desorption.
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