Vitaly and Dennis made it into Science
Congratulations to Vitaly, Dennis, and co-authors!
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Kanak Roy
A paper titled "Selective anaerobic oxidation of methane enables direct synthesis of methanol" by Vitaly Sushkevich and Dennis Palagin is published in Science on 5 May 2017. We have found that a direct stepwise conversion of methane into methanol over a copper-containing zeolite can be achieved by partial oxidation with water.
V. L. Sushkevich, D. Palagin, M. Ranocchiari, J. A. van Bokhoven, Science 356, 523-527 (2017), external page http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aam9035