Catalytic Application of Nano-Gold Catalysts

✍ Scribed by Neeraj Kumar Mishra

• Publisher: ExLi4EvA
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 138
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gold, considered catalytically inactive for a long time, is now a
fascinating partner of modern chemistry, as scientists such as Bond,
Teles, Haruta, Hutchings, Ito and Hayashi opened new perspectives
for the whole synthetic chemist community. Recently gold has
attracted significant attention due to its advantageous characteristics
as a catalytic material and since it allows easy functionalization with
biologically active molecules. In this context, when gold is prepared as
very small particles, it turns out to be a highly active catalyst.
However, such a phenomenon completely disappears when the gold
particle size grows into the micrometer range. Therefore, the
preparation for obtaining an active gold catalyst is so important.
The primary objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive
overview of gold metal nanoparticles and their application as
promising catalysts.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Chapter 1 Nanoporous Gold Films as Catalyst
by Sang Hoon Kim
Chapter 2 Gold-Catalysed Reactions
by J.A. Moma, T.A. Ntho and Michael Scurrell
Chapter 3 Supported Gold Nanoparticles as Promising Catalysts
by Ahmad Alshammari and Venkata Narayana Kalevaru
Chapter 4 Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Using Amino Acids
by Light Irradiation
by Lilia Coronato Courrol and Ricardo Almeida de Matos
Chapter 5 Electrochemical Reactivity at Free and Supported
Gold Nanocatalysts Surface
by Seydou Hebié, Yaovi Holade, Karine Servat, Boniface K. Kokoh and
Têko W. Napporn