Identification of single-site gold catalysis in acetylene hydrochlorination

• DOI: 10.1126/science.aal3439
• Publication Date: 2017-03-30T18:08:20Z
• Authors: Grazia Malta; Simon A. Kondrat; Simon J. Freakley; Catherine J. Davies; Li Lu; Simon Dawson; Adam Thetford; Emma K. Gibson; David J. Morgan; Wilm Jones; Peter P. Wells; Peter Johnston; C. Richard A. Catlow; Christopher J. Kiely; Graham J. Hutchings
• Keywords: QD; 540; 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

Gold-on-carbon catalysts are analogs of homogeneous gold catalysts that use a redox couple of Au(I) and Au(III) species.