“…Together with framework (FW) iron sites in tetrahedral coordination, iron species in extra-framework (EFW) position are present and it is generally accepted that the latter species are those active in benzene hydroxylation with N 2 O. However, different type of EFW iron species were evidenced to be present in Fe/MFI catalysts: (i) isolated Fe III ions in different locations in the zeolite cages (indicated as a, b and g positions [12]), (ii) isolated Fe II ions [10], (iii) binuclear complexes [8], and (iv) iron-oxide nanoparticles [13]. Recently, it was also indicated that nano-oxide clusters of random structure (''ferrihydrate'') are active in phenol synthesis, but these species transform to magnetite (partially active) or hematite (inactive) iron-oxide particles [14].…”