Science Direct  June 30, 2022 Partial oxidation of methane (CH4) to methanol (CH3OH) lifts the energy density and drives the production of numerous chemicals. In nature, this is achieved by methane monooxygenase with di-iron sites, which is extremely challenging to mimic in artificial systems due to the high dissociation energy of the C–H bond in CH4 and facile over-oxidation of CH3OH to CO and CO2. An international team of researchers (UK, China, USA – University of Chicago, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Japan) has achieved the direct photo-oxidation of CH4 over mono-iron hydroxyl sites immobilized within a metal–organic framework, PMOF-RuFe(OH). Under […]