BACKGROUND Since the work of Sabatier 100 year ago, chemists have turned almost
exclusively to metals to activate H2 by weakening or cleaving its central bond. This …

This article is focused on recent developments in main group mediated hydrogenation
chemistry and catalysis using “frustrated Lewis pairs”(FLPs). The broading range of …

The articulation of the notion of “frustrated Lewis pairs”(FLPs), which emerged from the
discovery that H2 can be reversibly activated by combinations of sterically encumbered …

The concerted action of a Lewis acid and base can activate H 2 and other small molecules.
Such frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) have garnered much attention and prompted many …

Identification on catalytic sites of heterogeneous catalysts at atomic level is important to
understand catalytic mechanism. Surface engineering on defects of metal oxides can …

Adsorption of molecules on active sites of heterogeneous catalysts significantly affects their
catalytic performance, which provides a perspective to understand the catalytic …

Asymmetric hydrogenation, a seminal strategy for the synthesis of chiral molecules, remains
largely unmet in terms of activation by non‐metal sites of heterogeneous catalysts. Herein …

Chiral catalysts play a crucial role in the realm of asymmetric catalysis. Since their
breakthrough discovery in 2006, chiral frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) have risen as a novel …

Selective hydrogenolysis of the Caryl–O bonds in lignin is a key strategy for the generation
of fuels and chemical feedstocks from biomass. Currently, hydrogenolysis has been mainly …

Conspectus Hexagonal boron nitrides (h-BNs) are attractive two-dimensional (2D)
nanomaterials that consist of alternating B and N atoms and layered honeycomb-like …