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    "abstract": "Metal-metal bonds constitute an important type of reactive centers for chemical transformation; however, the availability of active metal-metal bonds being capable of converting methane under mild conditions, the holy grail in catalysis, remains a serious challenge. Herein, benefiting from the systematic investigation of 36 metal clusters of tantalum by using mass spectrometric experiments complemented with quantum chemical calculations, the dehydrogenation of methane at room temperature was successfully achieved by 18 cluster species featuring \u03c3-bonding electrons localized in single naked Ta-Ta centers. In sharp contrast, the other 18 remaining clusters, either without naked Ta-Ta \u03c3-bond or with \u03c3-bonding electrons delocalized over multiple Ta-Ta centers only exhibit molecular CH",
    "authors": [
        {
            "affiliation": "State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.\nUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China.\nBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and CAS Research/Education Centre of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.",
            "firstname": "Qian",
            "initials": "Q",
            "lastname": "Li"
        },
        {
            "affiliation": "State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.\nBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and CAS Research/Education Centre of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.",
            "firstname": "Qing-Yu",
            "initials": "QY",
            "lastname": "Liu"
        },
        {
            "affiliation": "State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.\nBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and CAS Research/Education Centre of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.",
            "firstname": "Yan-Xia",
            "initials": "YX",
            "lastname": "Zhao"
        },
        {
            "affiliation": "State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.\nUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China.\nBeijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and CAS Research/Education Centre of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.",
            "firstname": "Sheng-Gui",
            "initials": "SG",
            "lastname": "He"
        }
    ],
    "conclusions": null,
    "copyrights": "\u00a9 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.",
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    "journal": "JACS Au",
    "keywords": [],
    "methods": null,
    "publication_date": "2024-05-31",
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    "results": null,
    "title": "Conversion of Methane at Room Temperature Mediated by the Ta-Ta \u03c3-Bond.",
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