Metal–organic frameworks as catalysts and biocatalysts for methane oxidation: The current state of the art

LS Andrade, HHLB Lima, CTP Silva… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
As the main component of natural and shale gas, seabed clathrates, and biogas, methane
(CH 4) is an abundant C1 resource for added-value chemicals. CH 4 is of critical importance …

Direct Methane Oxidation by Copper-and Iron-Dependent Methane Monooxygenases

FJ Tucci, AC Rosenzweig - Chemical reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to climate change and is
primarily regulated in Nature by methanotrophic bacteria, which consume methane gas as …

Methane activation by a mononuclear copper active site in the zeolite mordenite: Effect of metal nuclearity on reactivity

AJ Heyer, D Plessers, A Braun, HM Rhoda… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The direct conversion of methane to methanol would have a wide reaching environmental
and industrial impact. Copper-containing zeolites can perform this reaction at low …

Unraveling the valence state and reactivity of copper centers in membrane-bound particulate methane monooxygenase

W Peng, Z Wang, Q Zhang, S Yan… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) plays a critical role in catalyzing the
conversion of methane to methanol, constituting the initial step in the C1 metabolic pathway …

In Situ UV–Vis–NIR Absorption Spectroscopy and Catalysis

ML Bols, J Ma, F Rammal, D Plessers, X Wu… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
This review highlights in situ UV–vis–NIR range absorption spectroscopy in catalysis. A
variety of experimental techniques identifying reaction mechanisms, kinetics, and structural …

Second-sphere lattice effects in copper and iron zeolite catalysis

HM Rhoda, AJ Heyer, BER Snyder, D Plessers… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-exchanged zeolites perform remarkable chemical reactions from low-
temperature methane to methanol oxidation to selective reduction of NOx pollutants. As with …

Transition metal oxide complexes as molecular catalysts for selective methane to methanol transformation: any prospects or time to retire?

EE Claveau, S Sader, BA Jackson, SN Khan… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Transition metal oxides have been extensively used in the literature for the conversion of
methane to methanol. Despite the progress made over the past decades, no method with …

A Reactive, Photogenerated High-Spin (S = 2) FeIV(O) Complex via O2 Activation

JB Gordon, T Albert, A Dey, S Sabuncu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Addition of dioxygen at low temperature to the non-heme ferrous complex FeII
(Me3TACN)((OSiPh2) 2O)(1) in 2-MeTHF produces a peroxo-bridged diferric complex Fe2III …

106-fold faster C–H bond hydroxylation by a CoIII,IV2(µ-O)2 complex [via a CoIII2(µ-O)(µ-OH) intermediate] versus its FeIIIFeIV analog

Y Li, C Abelson, L Que Jr… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The hydroxylation of C–H bonds can be carried out by the high-valent CoIII, IV2 (µ-O) 2
complex 2a supported by the tetradentate tris (2-pyridylmethyl) amine ligand via a CoIII2 (µ …

Direct and remote control of electronic structures and redox potentials in μ-oxo diferric complexes

S Finke, A Stammler, J Oldengott, S Walleck… - Dalton …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Non-heme diiron enzymes activate O2 for the oxidation of substrates in the form of peroxo
FeIII2 or high-valent FeIV2 intermediates. We have developed a dinucleating bis …