@article{a8d8543e1c1046a1923ae49962ab2fa6,
title = "Selective Methane Oxidation to Methanol on Cu-Oxo Dimers Stabilized by Zirconia Nodes of an NU-1000 Metal-Organic Framework",
abstract = "Mononuclear and dinuclear copper species were synthesized at the nodes of an NU-1000 metal-organic framework (MOF) via cation exchange and subsequent oxidation at 200 °C in oxygen. Copper-exchanged MOFs are active for selectively converting methane to methanol at 150-200 °C. At 150 °C and 1 bar methane, approximately a third of the copper centers are involved in converting methane to methanol. Methanol productivity increased by 3-4-fold and selectivity increased from 70% to 90% by increasing the methane pressure from 1 to 40 bar. Density functional theory showed that reaction pathways on various copper sites are able to convert methane to methanol, the copper oxyl sites with much lower free energies of activation. Combining studies of the stoichiometric activity with characterization by in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy and density functional theory, we conclude that dehydrated dinuclear copper oxyl sites formed after activation at 200 °C are responsible for the activity.",
author = "Jian Zheng and Jingyun Ye and Ortu{\~n}o, {Manuel A.} and Fulton, {John L.} and Guti{\'e}rrez, {Oliver Y.} and Camaioni, {Donald M.} and Motkuri, {Radha Kishan} and Zhanyong Li and Webber, {Thomas E.} and Mehdi, {B. Layla} and Browning, {Nigel D.} and Penn, {R. Lee} and Farha, {Omar K.} and Hupp, {Joseph T.} and Truhlar, {Donald G.} and Cramer, {Christopher J.} and Lercher, {Johannes A.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this work from the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center, an EFRC funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (DE-SC0012702). This research used resources of the APS, which is a DOE Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences User Facility. Sector 20 operations at the APS are supported by the U.S. DOE (DE-AC02-06CH11357) and the Canadian Light Source. We thank Dr. Mahalingam Balasubramanian (APS X-ray Science Division) for assisting in the XAFS experiments. Most of the experiments were performed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle for the U.S. DOE. We also acknowledge the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) at the University of Minnesota for providing resources that contributed to the research results reported within this paper. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 American Chemical Society.",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
day = "12",
doi = "10.1021/jacs.9b02902",
language = "English",
volume = "141",
pages = "9292--9304",
journal = "Journal of the American Chemical Society",
issn = "0002-7863",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
number = "23",
}