Choukroun M, Petuya C, Vu TH, Desmedt A, Davies AG, Sotin C. Reply to the 'Comment on Cage occupancy of methane clathrate hydrates in the ternary H
2O-NH
3-CH
4 system' by S. Alavi and J. Ripmeester,
Chem. Commun., 2022,
58, DOI:
10.1039/D1CC06526B.
Chem Commun (Camb) 2022;
58:4099-4102. [PMID:
35289825 DOI:
10.1039/d2cc00568a]
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Abstract
Our recent Communication suggested that ammonia in aqueous solution may preferentially destabilize large cages in methane clathrate hydrates. A Comment favored ammonia incorporation instead, but it did not accurately describe our proposed mechanism and relied primarily on studies conducted in different chemical systems and/or which used other preparation methods.
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