Gold has traditionally been regarded as inactive as a catalytic metal. However, the advent of nanoparticulate gold on high surface area oxide supports has demon

Research on designing new catalytic systems has been one of the most important fields in modern organic chemistry. One reason for this is the predominant contri

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