Cover Picture: Facile Heterolytic H2 Activation by Amines and B(C6F5)3 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 32/2008)

Lifting the curtain on metal-free hydrogen activation and hydrogenation: The successive splitting of molecular hydrogen under mild conditions by “frustrated Lewis pairs” based on inexpensive, stable amines in combination with B(C6F5)3 is presented by B. Rieger, T. Repo et al. in their Communication on page 6001 ff. The successful reduction of benzaldehyde is encouraging for the development of amine-B(C6F5)3 systems for the catalytic hydrogenation of olefins, carbonyl functions, and imines.