Vapour-phase gold-surface-mediated coupling of aldehydes with methanol

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-65

  Xu, Bingjun ^a   Liu, Xiaoying ^a   Haubrich, Jan ^a   Friend, Cynthia M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; METHANOL;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; GAS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

ALDEHYDES; CATALYSIS; GASES; GOLD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METHANOL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77956904619     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.467     Document Type: Article

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