Light olefins are important feedstocks and platform molecules for the chemical industry.
Their synthesis has been a research priority in both academia and industry. There are many …

The quest for an efficient process to convert methane efficiently to fuels and high value-
added chemicals such as olefins and aromatics is motivated by their increasing demands …

The importance of the selective activation of alkanes for science and technology in the
forthcoming decades does not need to be explicitly pointed out in this thematic issue of …

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 …

The paper discusses the hierarchy of model studies with increasing complexity towards an
understanding of industrial catalysts under reaction conditions. We use three case studies to …

Motivated by the search for ways of a more efficient usage of the large, unexploited
resources of methane, recent progress in the gas-phase activation of methane by ligated …

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 …

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 …

We introduce chemical structures and reactivity of oxygen-centred radicals (O−˙) over
transition metal oxide (TMO) clusters based on mass spectrometric and density functional …