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Inside Cover: Hydrogen‐Atom Abstraction from Methane by Stoichiometric Vanadium–Silicon Heteronuclear Oxide Cluster Cations (Chem. Eur. J. 37/2010)
Author(s) -
Ding XunLei,
Zhao YanXia,
Wu XiaoNan,
Wang ZheChen,
Ma JiaBi,
He ShengGui
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201090184
Subject(s) - heteronuclear molecule , chemistry , stoichiometry , methane , vanadium oxide , cluster (spacecraft) , hydrogen , oxide , silicon , inorganic chemistry , density functional theory , radical , silicon oxide , hydrogen atom abstraction , vanadium , molecule , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , computer science , programming language , silicon nitride
Time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry and density functional theory were used to study the reactions of vanadium–silicon heteronuclear oxide cluster cations with methane. In their Full Paper on page 11463 ff. , S.‐G. He et al. demonstrate that the stoichiometric oxide clusters [V 2 O 5 (SiO 2 ) 1–4 ] + and [(V 2 O 5 ) 2 SiO 2 ] + , which contain terminal‐oxygen‐centered radicals (O t . ) responsible for high CH activation, are able to activate methane under near‐room‐temperature conditions.