While the abundance of natural gas has motivated the valorization of methane as an energy feedstock, 1 direct use of methane for the production of higher-value chemicals like methanol is limited by the lack of successful strategies for selective partial methane oxidation. A limiting factor is the high C-H bond dissociation energy in methane compared to the partially oxidized products, which leads to overoxidation. Instead, energy-intensive routes that first produce syngas from methane at very high operating temperatures and pressures are customarily used in industry. Living systems leverage metalloenzymes such as soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) to convert methane selectively into methanol under ambient conditions using molecular oxygen as the oxidant 11-13 by forming, for example, a mononuclear Fe(IV)=O species that activates methane. These metalloenzymes have inspired the design of synthetic homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for the direct conversion of methane to methanol via more energy-efficient methods. Nevertheless, no synthetic catalyst to date is capable of simultaneously achieving high conversions and selectivities as enzymes have, motivating a wider search of candidate catalysts.