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CARPENTERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL, DETROIT, WAYNE AND OAKLANDCOUNTIES AND VICINITY, OF THE UNITED BROTHERHOODOF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA,AFL-CIO, Appellant,v.John CICCI, Appellee.
No. 13540.
United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.
Nov. 19, 1958.

Boaz Siegel and Rolland R. O'Hare, Detroit, Mich., Schwartz & O'Hare, Detroit, Mich., on brief, for appellant.
Dee Edwards, Detroit, Mich., for appellee.
Before MARTIN and MILLER, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, District Judge.
MILLER, Circuit Judge.


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The appellant is a voluntary association of several local unions of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO, and among its other functions, acts as the collective bargaining agent for members of its constituent local unions and as representative of the majority of all persons employed as carpenters in the Detroit area.  Appellee is an employer of members of the Carpenters'Introduction {#sec1}
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Methane activation by organometallic catalysis remains a field of intense study, as it has significant technological implications. Methane is both plentiful, being the primary component of natural gas, and quite valuable. The process of methane conversion has a multitude of industrial applications, including the production of fuel that could serve as an alternative energy source to the conventional petroleum and coal. However, because of the thermodynamic strength of the C--H bonds in methane and its very low acidity and basicity, it is difficult for methane to react readily.

Previous studies by Olah and co-workers^[@ref1]^ have shown that methane only becomes reactive in superacidic systems, allowing for the protonation of methane as well as methane conversion.^[@ref2]^ Similarly, the work of Streitwieser and Taylor demonstrated that methane is only deprotonated