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Chance and Necessity: My Encounter with Gold Catalysts
Author(s) -
Haruta Masatake
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201305987
Subject(s) - catalysis , psychology , chemistry , organic chemistry
“Have you tried gold?” This question after a presentation on hydrogen oxidation steered Masatake Haruta's research on heterogeneous catalysis. He found that gold combined with 3d transition metal oxides could exhibit surprisingly high catalytic activity for carbon monoxide oxidation at temperatures as low as 203 K.