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Catalytic Reduction by Quasi‐Homogeneous Gold Nanoclusters in the Liquid Phase
Author(s) -
Chong Hanbao,
Zhu Manzhou
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201500247
Subject(s) - nanoclusters , catalysis , homogeneous , colloidal gold , nanotechnology , materials science , homogeneous catalysis , metal , chemistry , nanoparticle , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , thermodynamics
Reduction reactions play significant roles in industrial manufacture, and supported metal nanoparticles (NPs) show great prospect for mass production. The gold NPs have achieved expanding progress in selective reduction in recent years and will lead to a hot issue in the future. However, the designing of efficient catalysts is currently quite challenging because of the lack of systematic understandings on the fundamentals of the catalytic efficiency. Fortunately, tremendous advances can be expected with the aid of quasi‐homogeneous NPs. This review highlights the unsupported gold NPs or nanoclusters (NCs) catalyzed reduction reactions, which include single‐electron‐transfer catalysis, selective hydrogenation of carbonyl and nitro groups. The tentative catalytic mechanism and the size‐dependence of gold nanocatalyst have also been discussed in this review.