title: Carbon nanotube-supported gold nanoparticles as efficient catalysts for selective oxidation of cellobiose into gluconic acid in aqueous medium.
abstract: Gold nanoparticles loaded on nitric acid-pretreated carbon nanotubes are efficient for the selective oxidation of cellobiose by molecular oxygen to gluconic acid in aqueous medium without pH control; a gluconic acid yield of 80% has been obtained at 145 degrees C.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols, Ethers and Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Xuesong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Weiping
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Mi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Qinghong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ye
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D002475:Cellobiose / Q000737:chemistry*; D005942:Gluconates / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D006046:Gold; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry*; D012996:Solutions
chemical_list: D005942:Gluconates; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D012996:Solutions; D002475:Cellobiose; D006046:Gold; C030691:gluconic acid; D010100:Oxygen