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94. Prati L, Porta F (2005) Oxidation of alcohols and sugars using Au/C catalysts: part 1. Alcohols.
Appl Catal A Gen 291:199–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2004.11.050
Gold Nanoparticles for Oxidation Reactions: Critical Role of Supports and Au. . .
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the oxidant-free dehydrogenation of benzyl alcohol: studies on support and gold size effects.
Chem Eur J 17:1247–1256. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201002469
79. Ishida T, Kawakita N, Akita T, Haruta M (2009) One-pot N-alkylation of primary amines to
secondary amines by gold clusters supported on porous coordination polymers. Gold Bull
42:267–274. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03214948
80. Ishida T, Kawakita N, Akita T, Haruta M (2010) Deposition of gold clusters onto porous
coordination polymers by solid grinding. In: Studies in surface science and catalysis. Elsevier,
Amsterdam, pp 839–842
81. Takei T, Akita T, Nakamura I, Fujitani T, Okumura M, Okazaki K, Huang J, Ishida T, Haruta
M (2012) Heterogeneous catalysis by gold. In: Advances in catalysis. Academic Press,
Cambridge, pp 1–126
82. Xie X, Long J, Xu J, Chen L, Wang Y, Zhang Z, Wang X (2012) Nitrogen-doped graphene
stabilized gold nanoparticles for aerobic selective oxidation of benzylic alcohols. RSC Adv
2:12438. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ra21291a
83. Miyamura H, Matsubara R, Miyazaki Y, Kobayashi S (2007) Aerobic oxidation of alcohols at
room temperature and atmospheric conditions catalyzed by reusable gold nanoclusters stabilized by the benzene rings of polystyrene derivatives. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
46:4151–4154. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200700080
84. Lucchesi C, Inasaki T, Miyamura H, Matsubara R, Kobayashi S (2008) Aerobic oxidation of
alcohols under mild conditions catalyzed by novel polymer-incarcerated, carbon-stabilized
gold nanoclusters. Adv Synth Catal 350:1996–2000. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.200800319
85. Ishida T, Okamoto S, Makiyama R, Haruta M (2009) Aerobic oxidation of glucose and
1-phenylethanol over gold nanoparticles directly deposited on ion-exchange resins. Appl
Catal A Gen 353:243–248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2008.10.049
86. Ahmed OU, Mjalli FS, Al-Wahaibi T, Al-Wahaibi Y, Alnashef IM (2015) Stability of
superoxide ion in phosphonium-based ionic liquids. Ind Eng Chem Res 54:2074–2080.
https://doi.org/10.1021/ie504893k
87. Wang S, Wang J, Zhao Q, Li D, Wang JQ, Cho M, Cho H, Terasaki O, Chen S, Wan Y (2015)
Highly active heterogeneous 3 nm gold nanoparticles on mesoporous carbon as catalysts for
low-temperature selective oxidation and reduction in water. ACS Catal 5:797–802. https://doi.
org/10.1021/cs501896c
88. Han J, Liu Y, Li L, Guo R (2009) Poly(o-phenylenediamine) submicrosphere-supported gold
nanocatalysts: synthesis, characterization, and application in selective oxidation of benzyl
alcohol. Langmuir 25:11054–11060. https://doi.org/10.1021/la901373t
89. Wang Y, Yan R, Zhang J, Zhang W (2010) Synthesis of efficient and reusable catalyst of sizecontrolled Au nanoparticles within a porous, chelating and intelligent hydrogel for aerobic
alcohol oxidation. J Mol Catal A Chem 317:81–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcata.2009.10.
026
90. Yin H, Zhou C, Xu C, Liu P, Xu X, Ding Y (2008) Aerobic oxidation of d-glucose on supportfree nanoporous gold. J Phys Chem C 112:9673–9678. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp8019864
91. Wittstock A, Neumann B, Schaefer A, Dumbuya K, Kübel C, Biener MM, Zielasek V,
Steinrüek HP, Gottfried JM, Biener J, Hamza A, Bäumer M (2009) Nanoporous Au: an
unsupported pure gold catalyst? J Phys Chem C 113:5593–5600. https://doi.org/10.1021/
jp808185v
92. Lackmann A, Bäumer M, Wittstock G, Wittstock A (2018) Independent control over residual
silver content of nanoporous gold by galvanodynamically controlled dealloying. Nanoscale
10:17166–17173. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr03699c
93. Lackmann A, Mahr C, Schowalter M, Fitzek L, Weissmüller J, Rosenauer A, Wittstock A
(2017) A comparative study of alcohol oxidation over nanoporous gold in gas and liquid
phase. J Catal 353:99–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2017.07.008
94. Prati L, Porta F (2005) Oxidation of alcohols and sugars using Au/C catalysts: part 1. Alcohols.
Appl Catal A Gen 291:199–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2004.11.050
Gold Nanoparticles for Oxidation Reactions: Critical Role of Supports and Au. . .
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