Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Vanadium oxide cluster ions are prepared by laser ablation and the (V2O5) n O–(n= 1–3)
clusters (V2O6–, V4O11–, and V6O16–) are selected by a quadrupole mass filter and …

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 …

In this review gas-phase studies conducted (mostly) at the Berlin laboratory of the authors
are presented. The focus will be on describing mechanistic variants we (and others) came …