Group-III Nitrides Catalyzed Transformations of Organic Molecules

New means for activating covalent bonds in organic compounds are crucial further advancing application fields from pharmaceuticals to plastics syntheses. The manufacturing of almost every daily product can be impacted by the development such bond activations. However, traditional catalysts these transformations faced with challenges as catalyst stability, recyclability, or energy demand. Due their extraordinary fast carrier migration rate, and accessibility through mass nano-level crystals, III-nitrides provide potential opportunities toward solving challenges. Group-III nitrides, touted next-generation semiconductors beyond Si, have brought dramatic changes our everyday life over past 3 decades. With revolutionary applications LED lighting power electronics, use III-nitride chemical reactions has also attracted extensive interests. while inorganic reactions, water-splitting, CO2 reduction, N2 fixation, made impressive achievements, reaction received much less attention. 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