P-Doped Porous Carbon as Metal Free Catalysts for Selective Aerobic Oxidation with an Unexpected Mechanism

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 2305-2315

  Patel, Mehulkumar A ^a   Luo, Feixiang ^b   Khoshi, M Reza ^a   Rabie, Emann ^a   Zhang, Qing ^c   Flach, Carol R ^a   Mendelsohn, Richard ^a   Garfunkel, Eric ^b   Szostak, Michal ^a   He, Huixin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

aerobic oxidation; alcohol oxidation reaction; carbon catalyst; microwave assisted fabrication; phosphorus doped carbon

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; CATALYSTS; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY CONSERVATION; GRAPHENE; OXIDATION; PHOSPHORUS; POROUS MATERIALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WORK FUNCTION;

AEROBIC OXIDATIONS; ALCOHOL OXIDATION; CARBON CATALYSTS; MICROWAVE ASSISTED; PHOSPHORUS-DOPED;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84960192735     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07054     Document Type: Article

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