Phenol is an important industrial commodity, but the current production method has serious drawbacks related to safety, selectivity, and formation.

To address this issue, Prof. Ronny Neumann, Faculty of Chemistry, Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, recently developed a new phenol production method.

Based on electrocatalytic oxidation of benzene, the new production method is not only simple, efficient, and cost-effective, but it is a lot safer, too.