Front Cover: Importance of Methane Chemical Potential for Its Conversion to Methanol on Cu‐Exchanged Mordenite (Chem. Eur. J. 34/2020). Issue 34 (26th May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zheng, Jian; Lee, Insu; Khramenkova, Elena; Wang, Meng; Peng, Bo; Gutiérrez, Oliver Y.; Fulton, John L.; Camaioni, Donald M.; Khare, Rachit; Jentys, Andreas; Haller, Gary L.; Pidko, Evgeny A.; Sanchez‐Sanchez, Maricruz; Lercher, Johannes A.
• Is Part Of: Chemistry. Volume 26:Issue 34(2020)
• Page Start: 7511
• Page End: 7511
• Publication Date: 2020-05-26
• Subjects: chemical potential -- copper-trimer -- methane oxidation -- methanol production -- zeolite; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002229
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0947-6539

Abstract

Abstract : Tricopper‐oxo clusters [Cu3 (μ‐O)3 ] 2+ hosted in mordenite can selectively oxidize methane to methanol but yields are limited. At standard pressure, one cluster reacts with one CH4 molecule. Elevated methane pressure increased the chemical potential of methane by enabling the activation of two CH4 molecules by two μ‐O atoms out of the three contained in a [Cu3 (μ‐O)3 ] 2+, thus doubling the yield of methanol. More information can be found in the Communication by J. Zheng, M. Sanchez‐Sanchez, J. A. Lercher et al. on page 7563 .