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Inside Back Cover: A Heterogeneous Metal‐Free Catalyst for Hydrogenation: Lewis Acid–Base Pairs Integrated into a Carbon Lattice (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42/2018)
Author(s) -
Ding Yuxiao,
Huang Xing,
Yi Xianfeng,
Qiao Yunxiang,
Sun Xiaoyan,
Zheng Anmin,
Su Dang Sheng
Publication year - 2018
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.201810788
Subject(s) - lewis acids and bases , diamond , boron , catalysis , frustrated lewis pair , nitrogen , metal , cover (algebra) , crystallography , materials science , electron , carbon fibers , chemistry , inorganic chemistry , nanotechnology , physics , organic chemistry , composite number , metallurgy , composite material , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , engineering
Like a bridge over troubled water Solid‐phase metal‐free Lewis pairs containing electron‐rich nitrogen and electron‐deficient boron can be dispersed on sp 2 ‐hybridized diamond surfaces, where they draw on infinite π‐electrons donated from the surrounding graphitic structure. In their Communication on page 13800 ff., D. Su and et al. use these boron–nitrogen unquenched Lewis pairs to split H 2; into H + and H − , and to catalytically hydrogenate a range of substrates.