Inside Cover: Influence of Catalyst Acid/Base Properties in Acrolein Production by Oxidative Coupling of Ethanol and Methanol (ChemSusChem 9/2017)

The Inside Cover picture shows the magic of acrolein direct synthesis by oxidative coupling of alcohols (OCA). The process starts by methanol and ethanol oxidation to formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, respectively, on a FeMoOx redox catalyst followed by the cross‐aldolization of aldehydes and dehydration to acrolein taking place on the acid/base catalyst. The alcohols involved in this process can be biosourced; therefore, this new route to produce acrolein is even more interesting as it can replace current fossil‐based production of acrolein (oxidation of propylene). In their Full Paper (DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201700230), Lilić et al. on page 1916 in Issue 9, 2017, discuss the influence of the acid/base sites on the acrolein yield.