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SUBMITTER: Grundner S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4491810 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Grundner Sebastian S Markovits Monica A C MA Li Guanna G Tromp Moniek M Pidko Evgeny A EA Hensen Emiel J M EJ Jentys Andreas A Sanchez-Sanchez Maricruz M Lercher Johannes A JA
Nature communications 20150625
Copper-exchanged zeolites with mordenite structure mimic the nuclearity and reactivity of active sites in particulate methane monooxygenase, which are enzymes able to selectively oxidize methane to methanol. Here we show that the mordenite micropores provide a perfect confined environment for the highly selective stabilization of trinuclear copper-oxo clusters that exhibit a high reactivity towards activation of carbon-hydrogen bonds in methane and its subsequent transformation to methanol. The ...[more]