We summarize here the research advances on the reactivity of metal clusters. After a simple
introduction of apparatuses used for gas-phase cluster reactions, we focus on the reactivity …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …