A Team for the Development of Next‐Generation Metal‐Free Catalysis

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AbstractThis invited Team Profile was created by the Xie and Lin groups, hailing from the Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon‐Based Functional Materials (Fujian Province University) and the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment within the College of Chemistry at Fuzhou University (China). They recently published an article on borocarbonitride (BCN) nanosheets derived from the biomolecule guanine, which proved to be efficacious catalysts in the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODHP). This work provides new insight into the role of carbon in BCN catalysts and provides principles for the design of stable boron‐based catalysts. “Surface Chemistry and Catalytic Reactivity of Borocarbonitride in Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane”, G. Wang, S. Chen, Q. Duan, F. Wei, S. Lin, Z. Xie, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202307470.