Au25 clusters as electron-transfer catalysts induced the intramolecular cascade reaction of 2-nitrobenzonitrile

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chong, Hanbao ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Wang, Shuxin ^a   Fu, Fangyu ^a   Xiang, Ji ^a   Zhu, Manzhou ^a   Li, Yadong ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84889599147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03214     Document Type: Article

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