Cover Picture: Fundamentals of Unanticipated Efficiency of Gd2O3‐based Catalysts in Oxidative Coupling of Methane (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 14/2024).

This document is a summary of an article titled "Cover Picture: Fundamentals of Unanticipated Efficiency of Gd2O3-based Catalysts in Oxidative Coupling of Methane" published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The article discusses how the selectivity of products in the oxidative coupling of methane is determined by the nature of adsorbed oxygen species. The authors describe how the binding strength of selective mono-atomic oxygen species affects the formation of carbon oxides and ethane, which in turn affects the probability of their recombination to diatomic oxygen species that oxidize methane to carbon oxides. The article also briefly mentions other research topics such as the utilization of nanographenes as carriers of fluorophores, site-selective photocrosslinking of DNA duplex, and a rapid functional group transformation method using a specific reagent. [Extracted from the article]