Methane activation by heterogeneous catalysis

R Horn, R Schlögl - Catalysis Letters, 2015‏ - Springer
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 …

Chemistry with methane: concepts rather than recipes

H Schwarz - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Four seemingly simple transformations related to the chemistry of methane will be
addressed from mechanistic and conceptual points of view: 1) metal‐mediated …

Thermal hydrogen‐atom transfer from methane: the role of radicals and spin states in oxo‐cluster chemistry

N Dietl, M Schlangen, H Schwarz - … Chemie International Edition, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Electronic effects on room-temperature, gas-phase C–H Bond activations by cluster oxides and metal carbides: The methane challenge

H Schwarz, S Shaik, J Li - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
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 …

C–H bond activation by oxygen-centered radicals over atomic clusters

XL Ding, XN Wu, YX Zhao, SG He - Accounts of chemical …, 2012‏ - ACS Publications
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 …

Do** effects in cluster‐mediated bond activation

H Schwarz - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Thermal Methane Conversion to Formaldehyde Promoted by Single Platinum Atoms in PtAl2O4 Cluster Anions

YX Zhao, ZY Li, Z Yuan, XN Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Identification and mechanistic study of thermal methane conversion mediated by gas‐phase
species is important for finding potentially useful routes for direct methane transformation …

Characterization and reactivity of oxygen-centred radicals over transition metal oxide clusters

YX Zhao, XN Wu, JB Ma, SG He… - Physical Chemistry …, 2011‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We introduce chemical structures and reactivity of oxygen-centred radicals (O−˙) over
transition metal oxide (TMO) clusters based on mass spectrometric and density functional …

Effects of ligands, cluster size, and charge state in gas-phase catalysis: a happy marriage of experimental and computational studies

M Schlangen, H Schwarz - Catalysis letters, 2012‏ - Springer
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 …

Thermal hydrogen-atom transfer from methane: A mechanistic exercise

H Schwarz - Chemical Physics Letters, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Hydrogen-atom transfer (HAT) constitutes a key process in a broad range of chemical
transformations as it covers heterogeneous, homogeneous, and enzymatic reactions. While …