The activation of O2 on metal surfaces is a critical process for heterogeneous catalysis and
materials oxidation. Fundamental studies of well-defined metal surfaces using a variety of …

After the long-held assumption of the unreactivity of gold, numerous reactions catalyzed by
this noble metal have been increasingly emerging in the literature over the past 2 decades …

Gold ([Xe] 4f 14 5d 10 6s 1) is one of the most ancient themes of investigation in science and
arts, and its renaissance now leads to an exponentially increasing number of publications …

Whether gold is catalytically active on its own has been hotly debated since the discovery of
gold-based catalysis in the 1980s. One of the central controversies is on the O2 activation …

Three Mn 2 O 3 catalysts were synthetized by different methods, characterized and tested in
toluene and 2-propanol (iPrOH) oxidation in single and binary component mixture. In single …

The catalytic oxidation of different volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has been widely
studied for several decades within the field of air depollution. However, there is still much to …

Recently, gold has been intensely studied as a catalyst for key synthetic reactions. Gold is
an attractive catalyst because, surprisingly, it is highly active and very selective for partial …

Selective alcohol dehydrogenation on heterogeneous catalysts is a key industrial reaction
for production of aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic compounds. Design of catalysts with …

The oxidative dehydrogenation of primary alcohols promoted by gold nanoparticles was
investigated from an experimental and computational viewpoint to derive a plausible …

Gold-based classical high surface area catalysts have been widely investigated for
hydrogenation reactions, but fundamental studies on model catalysts are lacking. We …