Abstract
The Front Cover shows a playable version of the homogeneously catalyzed Guerbet-coupling from ethanol to n-butanol. The 2D ball-in-a-maze-game is shown here because the reaction steps are either performed in presence of a redox catalyst (top-down) or in presence of a base (left-right). Both axes can be moved independently from each other and substances are connected with humps in the height of the activation barrier. Playing the game repeatedly for a defined time and writing down the outcomes (see blackboard) yields the composition of the reaction mixture at a given time. Alas, the highly active redox catalyst Ru-MACHO shows unsatisfying yields and selectivities of n-butanol. But why? More information can be found in the Full Paper by Andreas Ohligschläger et al.
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