Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

17O-EPR determination of the structure and dynamics of copper single-metal sites in zeolites

  • Paolo Cleto Bruzzese,
  • Enrico Salvadori,
  • Stefan Jäger,
  • Martin Hartmann,
  • Bartolomeo Civalleri,
  • Andreas Pöppl,
  • Mario Chiesa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24935-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The identification of catalytically active sites with atomic-scale precision occupies a central place in the theory and practice of heterogeneous catalysis. Here the authors assess the nature of the copper-oxygen bond in a Cu-CHA zeolite and recover the microscopic structure of single-metal sites.