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SCIENCE
卷 373, 期 6552, 页码 327-+出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.abd5803
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- Munger, Pollock, Reynolds, Robinson, Smith, and Yoedicke Stanford Graduate Fellowship
- Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) [V417018N]
- FWO [11D4718N, G0A2216N]
- NSF [CHE-1660611, DGE-11474]
- Stanford Woods Institute
The size of zeolite pores was found to play a crucial role in the regeneration of active sites for the conversion of methane to methanol, with small pores favoring radical recombination to form methanol.
Catalytic conversion of methane to methanol remains an economically tantalizing but fundamentally challenging goal. Current technologies based on zeolites deactivate too rapidly for practical application. We found that similar active sites hosted in different zeolite lattices can exhibit markedly different reactivity with methane, depending on the size of the zeolite pore apertures. Whereas zeolite with large pore apertures deactivates completely after a single turnover, 40% of active sites in zeolite with small pore apertures are regenerated, enabling a catalytic cycle. Detailed spectroscopic characterization of reaction intermediates and density functional theory calculations show that hindered diffusion through small pore apertures disfavors premature release of CH3 radicals from the active site after C-H activation, thereby promoting radical recombination to form methanol rather than deactivated Fe-OCH3 centers elsewhere in the lattice.
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