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Give the inter-relationship of methane, methyl alcohol, formaldehyde and formic acid with conditions.

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1) methane to methyl alcohol

$2 C H_{4} + O_{2} 120 a t m - ------- \to C u t u b e s, 475 K 2 C H_{3} O H$

2) methane to formaldehyde

$C H_{4} + O_{2} M o O - -- \to H C H O + H_{2} O$

3) methane to formic acid

$2 C H_{4} + 3 O_{2} M g - b a s e d c a t a l y s t - ---------- \to 2 H C O O H + 2 H_{2} O$

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