One Electron‐Initiated Two‐Electron Oxidation of Water by Aluminum Porphyrins with Earth's Most Abundant Metal

Abstract

Invited for this month′s cover is the group of Haruo Inoue at Tokyo Metropolitan University. The image shows the reaction mechanism of the two‐electron oxidation of water to form hydrogen peroxide initiated by a one‐electron oxidation of a new class of molecular catalysts, aluminum porphyrins, that contains the earth's most abundant metal as the central ion with bauxite (Al2O3) and water as the background. The Full Paper itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.201700322.