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Back Cover: Optimal Water Coverage on Alumina: A Key to Generate Lewis Acid–Base Pairs that are Reactive Towards the CH Bond Activation of Methane (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 14/2011)
Author(s) -
Wischert Raphael,
Copéret Christophe,
Delbecq Françoise,
Sautet Philippe
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201101595
Subject(s) - lewis acids and bases , cover (algebra) , methane , chemistry , oxygen , catalysis , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , engineering
In small amounts , water, which would be expected to poison the Lewis acid defect sites of γ‐alumina, in fact stabilizes its most reactive face and increases the basicity of the surface oxygen atoms. As C. Copéret, P. Sautet et al. describe in their Communication on page 3202 ff., low levels of hydration facilitates the CH bond breaking of methane.