Single-site trinuclear copper oxygen clusters in mordenite for selective conversion of methane to methanol

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Grundner, Sebastian ^a   Markovits, Monica A C ^a   Li, Guanna ^b   Tromp, Moniek ^c   Pidko, Evgeny A ^b   Hensen, Emiel J M ^b   Jentys, Andreas ^a   Sanchez Sanchez, Maricruz ^a   Lercher, Johannes A ^a,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COPPER; ENZYME; METHANE; METHANOL; MORDENITE; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEOLITE;

CARBON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COPPER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROGEN; METHANE; METHANOL; MORDENITE; OXYGEN; STABILIZATION;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESORPTION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONITORING; REACTION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84933073482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8546     Document Type: Article

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