What prompted you to investigate this topic? The increasing worldwide availability of naturala nd shale gas has stimulated aq uick technical shift to catalytic dehydrogena-tion of propane to propylene (PDH). However,t his technology relies on Pt-or CrO x-basedc atalysts and suffers from thermo-dynamic limitations and rapid catalystd eactivation by coking and sintering. Oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of propane offers ap romising alternative to industrialized PDH process, but selectivity control foro lefins is difficult, because of deep-oxidation reactions over conventional metal oxide catalysts that produce as ubstantial amount of undesired CO 2 .H ence, we have dedicated our efforts to the development of at her-mally stable and metal-free ODH catalyst, which can selectively cleave the CÀHb ond while preventing CO 2 formation. As presented in this paper,e dge-hydroxylated boron nitride addresses these issues. What new scientific questions/problems doest his work raise? This work represents af undamental breakthrough in chemistry because non-metallic, inert boron nitride was transformed into ac hemically active and selectivec atalystf or propaneO DH. We have identified the BÀOH groups at the edges of BN as active sites forp ropane ODH. However, aw ell-defined reaction pathway remainsu nclear.F uture studies should focus on theoretical simulations and the captureo fr eaction intermediates to illustrate the reactionm echanism under real reaction conditions.