Inside Cover: Silica‐Supported Silver Nanoparticles with Surface Oxygen Species as a Reusable Catalyst for Alkylation of Arenes (ChemCatChem 1/2010)

The Japanese wisteria (Wisteria floribunda) is a woody liana with clusters of flowers. In their paper on pp. 84 ff., K. Shimizu et al. show that supported silver nanoparticles, represented by the Japanese wisteria, act as a catalyst for the alkylation of arenes with alcohols and styrenes. Cooperation of surface Ag and adjacent O atoms leads to cleavage of the α-CH bond of alcohols.