Industrial Applications of Gold Catalysis.
Gold catalysis has recently found its first large-scale applications in the chemical industry. This Minireview provides a critical analysis of the success factors and of the main obstacles that had to be overcome on the long way from the discovery to the commercialization of gold catalysts. The insights should be useful to researchers in both academia and industry working on the development of tomorrow's gold catalysts to tackle significant environmental and economic issues.
Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, via U. La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, Italy.
Rosaria
0000-0001-6596-1572
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Ciriminna
Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita degli Studi di Milano, via Venzian 21, Milano, Italy.
Ermelinda
0000-0002-3127-8967
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Falletta
Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita degli Studi di Milano, via Venzian 21, Milano, Italy.
Cristina
0000-0002-3127-8967
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Della Pina
BASF SE, Process Research and Chemical Engineering, 67056, Ludwigshafen, Germany. henrique.teles@basf.com.
Joaquim Henrique
0000-0002-7843-5675
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Teles
Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, via U. La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, Italy. mario.pagliaro@cnr.it.
Mario
0000-0002-5096-329X
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Pagliaro
gold catalysis; gold nanoparticles; heterogeneous catalysis; industrial chemistry