Contents
Gold Nanoparticles for Oxidation Reactions: Critical Role of Supports
and Au Particle Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Tamao Ishida, Ayako Taketoshi, and Masatake Haruta
Metal Nanoparticles for Redox Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Koichiro Jitsukawa and Takato Mitsudome
Earth-Abundant and Precious Metal Nanoparticle Catalysis . . . . . . . . . 77
Margery Cortes-Clerget, Nnamdi Akporji, Balaram S. Takale, Alex Wood,
Evan Landstrom, and Bruce H. Lipshutz
Precise Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Their Catalytic Behavior . . . . . . 131
Makoto Tanabe and Kimihisa Yamamoto
Pd Nanoparticles in C–H Activation and Cross-coupling Catalysis . . . . . 171
Ian James Stewart Fairlamb and Neil Walter James Scott
Nanoparticle Catalysts in Flow Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Hiroyuki Miyamura and Shū Kobayashi
Nanocatalysis Meets Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Oscar Verho and Jan-E. Bäckvall
Chiral Metal Nanoparticles for Asymmetric Catalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Tomohiro Yasukawa and Shū Kobayashi
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