Paraffins nitrile oxides from

Valuable chemicals can principally be produced from paraffins if these unreactive compounds can be functionalized. This primarily requires the activation of the rather unreactive paraffinic C-H bond or C-C bond. Therefore, high temperatures are usually applied in the functionalization of paraffins. An interesting route is the partial oxidation of these compounds. This may yield olefins by oxidative dehydrogenation, oxygenates by oxygen insertion, or even nitrile compounds if a reactive nitrogen compound is added to the feed. 

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