We summarize here the research advances on the reactivity of metal clusters. After a simple
introduction of apparatuses used for gas-phase cluster reactions, we focus on the reactivity …

Four seemingly simple transformations related to the chemistry of methane will be
addressed from mechanistic and conceptual points of view: 1) metal‐mediated …

Abstract Hydrogen‐atom transfer (HAT), as one of the fundamental reactions in chemistry, is
investigated with state‐of‐the‐art gas‐phase experiments in conjunction with computational …

Saturated hydrocarbons, or alkanes, are major constituents of natural gas and oil. Directly
transforming alkanes into more complex organic compounds is a value-adding process, but …

Recent progress in the gas‐phase activation of methane is discussed. We demonstrate that
cluster size, charge state, and ligands crucially affect both the reactivity and selectivity of …

Gas‐phase investigations of judiciously doped oxide clusters permit to address fundamental
challenges related to, for example, the low‐temperature oxidation of CO or the selective …

The final piece in an intriguing puzzle: More than ten years after its theoretical prediction to
serve as a powerful converter of methane to methanol, the bare [CuO]+ cation has been …

We introduce chemical structures and reactivity of oxygen-centred radicals (O−˙) over
transition metal oxide (TMO) clusters based on mass spectrometric and density functional …

Hydrogen-atom transfer (HAT) constitutes a key process in a broad range of chemical
transformations as it covers heterogeneous, homogeneous, and enzymatic reactions. While …

We present selected examples of gas-phase reactions which are of timely interest for the
activation of small molecules. Due to the very nature of the experiments, detailed insight in …