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Cover Picture: Expanding the Scope of Metal‐Free Catalytic Hydrogenation through Frustrated Lewis Pair Design (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 37/2010)
Author(s) -
Erős Gábor,
Mehdi Hasan,
Pápai Imre,
Rokob Tibor András,
Király Péter,
Tárkányi Gábor,
Soós Tibor
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201003339
Subject(s) - frustrated lewis pair , lewis acids and bases , steric effects , catalysis , cover (algebra) , scope (computer science) , transition metal , chemistry , materials science , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , programming language
The evolution of deep and shallow flowers is a response to a “race” with pollinating organisms that determines the length and form of the bill of hummingbirds. Likewise, the selection of the Lewis basic component for a frustrated Lewis pair is dictated by the steric congestion around the boron center of the Lewis acid. In their Communication on page 6559 ff., T. Soós and co‐workers show that this “selection phenomenon” can be exploited as a design concept for metal‐free hydrogenation catalysts.