Advances in carbon nanotube-noble metal catalyzed organic transformations

Nanotechnology Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 515-539

  John, Jubi ^a   Gravel, Edmond ^a   Namboothiri, Irishi N N ^b   Doris, Eric ^a  

^a SERVICE DE CHIMIE BIOORGANIQUE ET DE MARQUAGE   (France)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Heterogeneous catalysis; Nanoparticles; Noble metals; Organic reactions

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; PRECIOUS METALS; SYNTHETIC METALS; YARN;

METAL-CATALYZED; ORGANIC REACTION; ORGANIC TRANSFORMATIONS; SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84945194533     PISSN: 21919089     EISSN: 21919097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ntrev-2012-0025     Document Type: Review

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