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Methane, ethane and ethylene are oxidised by hydrogen peroxide in aqueous solutions at room temperature and atmospheric pressure in the presence of peroxocomplexes of copper(II) hydroxide; the reaction presumably proceeds by a non-radical mechanism.
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Kuzmin et al. (1998) studied this question.
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