MOF converts natural gas to alcohols (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

MOF converts natural gas to alcohols

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Detail of the porous MOF (left and inside circle at right) showing the metal reactive site where oxygen and hydrocarbons like ethane (molecules at extreme left) are converted into alcohols, such as ethanol, plus carbon dioxide (molecules at extreme right). The red balls are oxygen atoms; the gray are carbon; yellow is iron; light blue is zinc; dark blue is nitrogen; and white is hydrogen.

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Jonas Börgel/UC Berkeley

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