Oxidation of benzylic compounds by gold nanowires at 1 atm O2

Lei Hu; Xueqin Cao; Jianhui Yang; Min Li; Haiyan Hong; Qingfeng Xu; Jianfeng Ge; Lihua Wang; Jianmei Lu; Liang Chen; Hongwei Gu

doi:10.1039/C0CC01568G

Oxidation of benzylic compounds by gold nanowires at 1 atm O₂†

Lei Hu,^a Xueqin Cao,^a Jianhui Yang,^b Min Li,^a Haiyan Hong,^a Qingfeng Xu,^a Jianfeng Ge,^a Lihua Wang,^a Jianmei Lu,*^a Liang Chen*^b and Hongwei Gu*^a

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^a Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Absorbent Materials and Techniques for Environment, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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^b Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China

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Ultra-thin gold nanowires (GNWs), with uniform surface crystallinity, appear much more active than gold nanoclusters in benzylic compound oxidation. Ethylbenzene oxidation was used as a model reaction and a radical chain reaction mechanism was revealed by the DFT method.

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Oxidation of benzylic compounds by gold nanowires at 1 atm O₂†

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