Methane activation by heterogeneous catalysis will play a key role to secure the supply of
energy, chemicals and fuels in the future. Methane is the main constituent of natural gas and …

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 …

This Perspective discusses a story of one molecule (methane), a few metal-oxide cationic
clusters (MOCCs), dopants, metal-carbide cations, oriented-electric fields (OEFs), and a …

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 …

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 …

Identification and mechanistic study of thermal methane conversion mediated by gas‐phase
species is important for finding potentially useful routes for direct methane transformation …

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 …