Highly efficient aerobic oxidation of alkenes over unsupported nanogold

Malika Boualleg; Kevin Guillois; Bertrand Istria; Laurence Burel; Laurent Veyre; Jean-Marie Basset; Chloé Thieuleux; Valérie Caps

doi:10.1039/c0cc00664e

Highly efficient aerobic oxidation of alkenes over unsupported nanogold

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Aug 7;46(29):5361-3. doi: 10.1039/c0cc00664e. Epub 2010 Jun 18.

Authors

Malika Boualleg¹, Kevin Guillois, Bertrand Istria, Laurence Burel, Laurent Veyre, Jean-Marie Basset, Chloé Thieuleux, Valérie Caps

Affiliation

¹ Université de Lyon, Institut de Chimie de Lyon, UMR 5265 CNRS-CPE-UCBL (LC2P2), Equipe LCOMS, CPE Lyon, 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69616 Villeurbanne, France.

PMID: 20559599
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc00664e

Abstract

An octylsilane-stabilized colloidal dispersion of 2 nm crystalline gold nanoparticles is highly active and selective for the aerobic oxidations of stilbene and cyclohexene in methylcyclohexane.