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Typically, a Lewis acid and a base react with each other and form classicacid base adducts. The neutralization reaction is however prevented by theintroduction of bulky substitutes and this interesting finding leads to a newconcept called frustrated Lewis pairs, FLPs. Since both reactivities of Lewisacids and bases are remained in the same systems, FLPs have been shown manyimportant applications. One of them is hydrogen activation, which showed forthe first time the use of a non metal catalyst for that purpose. In this minireview, we have summarized all important findings regarding the H2 activationby FLPs. This includes preorganisation of FLPs, reaction path for theactivation, polarization of HH bond and the factors affected the reactivity. Inlight of some recent developments, we aim to clarify the reaction mechanism forthe H2 actitation by FLPs, which has been under debate for decades since thefirst discovery of FLPs. We believe that this mini review can be served as aguideline for the future fundamental studies and industrial applications.

Reaction mechanism of hydrogen activation by frustrated Lewis pairs