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Cover Picture: Radical Chemistry and Reaction Mechanisms of Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation over Hexagonal Boron Nitride Catalysts (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 21/2020)
Author(s) -
Zhang Xuanyu,
You Rui,
Wei Zeyue,
Jiang Xiao,
Yang Jiuzhong,
Pan Yang,
Wu Peiwen,
Jia Qingdong,
Bao Zhenghong,
Bai Lei,
Jin Mingzhou,
Sumpter Bobby,
Fung Victor,
Huang Weixin,
Wu Zili
Publication year - 2020
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.202004479
Subject(s) - dehydrogenation , propane , catalysis , chemistry , radical , selectivity , inorganic chemistry , nitride , boron , photochemistry , organic chemistry , layer (electronics)
Hexagonal boron nitride is an emerging catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of alkanes to produce olefins with high selectivity and activity. In their Communication on page 8042, V. Fung, W. Huang, Z. Wu et al. report the first direct experimental evidence for gas‐phase methyl radicals (CH 3 . ) in propane ODH over boron‐based catalysts. The presence of gas‐phase radicals is shown to be partially responsible for the generation of cracking products (C 2 and C 1 ) in propane ODH.