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Oliver Y. Gutiérrez

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Journal article (2020) - Jian Zheng, Insu Lee, Elena Khramenkova, Meng Wang, Bo Peng, Oliver Y. Gutiérrez, John L. Fulton, Donald M. Camaioni, Evgeny A. Pidko, More Authors...
Copper-oxo clusters exchanged in zeolite mordenite are active in the stoichiometric conversion of methane to methanol at low temperatures. Here, we show an unprecedented methanol yield per Cu of 0.6, with a 90–95 % selectivity, on a MOR solely containing [Cu3(μ-O)3]2+ active sites. DFT calculations, spectroscopic characterization and kinetic analysis show that increasing the chemical potential of methane enables the utilization of two μ-oxo bridge oxygen out of the three available in the tricopper-oxo cluster structure. Methanol and methoxy groups are stabilized in parallel, leading to methanol desorption in the presence of water. ...