Patent ID: 8729328

Claim:
A method for the oxidative coupling of methane to a hydrocarbon other than toluene comprising: providing a hydrocarbon feedstream comprising methane and a hydrocarbon other than toluene; providing an oxidative catalyst within a reactor, the catalyst consisting essentially of: (A) Mg element from 40 to 90 wt. % of the catalyst; (B) at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cs and Re, wherein the elements from (B) comprise from 0.01 to 40 wt. % of the catalyst; (C) at least one element selected from the group consisting of Na, Sr, and Ca, wherein the elements from (C) comprise from 0.01 to 40 wt. % of the catalyst; and (D) oxygen, wherein oxygen comprises from 10 to 45 wt. % of the catalyst; feeding the hydrocarbon feedstream and an oxygen source to the reactor; carrying out oxidative coupling of methane to a hydrocarbon other than toluene over the oxidative catalyst according to a set of reaction conditions to produce a coupling hydrocarbon product stream; and recovering said coupling hydrocarbon product stream from the reactor.