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 …

Abstract Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) are combinations of Lewis acids and Lewis bases in
solution that are deterred from strong adduct formation by steric and/or electronic factors …

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 …

Conspectus Frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry has emerged in the past decade as a
strategy that enables main-group compounds to activate small molecules. This concept is …

The study of main-group molecules that behave and react similarly to transition-metal (TM)
complexes has attracted significant interest in recent decades. Most notably, the attractive …

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

Abstract Der Begriff “frustrierte Lewis‐Paare”(FLPs) bezeichnet Kombinationen von Lewis‐
Säuren und Lewis‐Basen in Lösung, die aufgrund sterischer oder elektronischer Faktoren …

This Perspective describes the development of the field of catalysis and the advent of metal-
free catalysis by focusing on the use of main-group species as frustrated Lewis pair …

In contrast to transition metal-catalysed C–H functionalisation, highly efficient construction of
C–C and C–X (X= N, O, S, B, Si, etc.) bonds through metal-free catalytic C–H …

Despite recent achievements in the field of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) for small molecule
activations, the reversible activation and catalytic transformations of N–H-activated ammonia …