Abstract: Products made from alcohol oxidation are very important and used in food industry, pharmaceuticals and dryers to name but a few. In this regard, precious metals such as gold operate in various shapes and sizes as effective catalysts for the oxidation of alcohols. In this work, 20 nm-sized gold nanoparticles were synthesized and modified with either 4-carboxybenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate (AB) (single salt catalyst) or a mixture of the latter with 3,5-dimethylbenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate (AB-DMB, double-salt catalyst). The relative con...
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Topics: 
Inorganic chemistry
Chemical engineering