title: Metal-free catalysis of sustainable Friedel-Crafts reactions: direct activation of benzene by carbon nitrides to avoid the use of metal chlorides and halogenated compounds.
abstract: The use of mesoporous graphitic C3N4 for the activation of benzene permitted to perform more sustainable Friedel-Crafts reactions by allowing to directly use carboxylic acids, alcohols and even quaternary ammoniums or urea as electrophiles.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Research Campus Golm, D-14424, Potsdam, Germany.
authors.forename: Frederic
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Goettmann
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Antonietti
authors.forename: Arne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thomas