Selective oxidation with dioxygen by gold nanoparticle catalysts derived from 55-atom clusters

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7207, 2008, Pages 981-983

  Turner, Mark ^a   Golovko, Vladimir B ^a,b   Vaughan, Owain P H ^a   Abdulkin, Pavel ^a   Berenguer Murcia, Angel ^a   Tikhov, Mintcho S ^a   Johnson, Brian F G ^a   Lambert, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOPHENONE; BENZALDEHYDE; GOLD; METAL; NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN; STYRENE; TITANIUM;

CATALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CATALYST; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 50049091297     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07194     Document Type: Article

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