Florian Klasovsky, M. Steffan, J. Arras, J. Radnik, P. Claus
{"title":"Highly Dispersed Gold Particles on Polyaniline – A New Nanocatalyst for Selective Hydrogenation","authors":"Florian Klasovsky, M. Steffan, J. Arras, J. Radnik, P. Claus","doi":"10.2174/1874067700701010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874067700701010001","url":null,"abstract":"A new nanocatalyst which comprises gold particles (average size = (2.5±1.3) nm) supported on intrinsically conductive polyaniline (PANI) was prepared via a sol-method. This Au/PANI catalyst was used for the first time in hydrogenation of the α,β-unsaturated aldehyde citral exhibiting high activity (93% conversion) and selectivity (76%) towards the products of C=O group hydrogenation, geraniol and nerol, whereas the selectivity towards the product of the hydrogenation of the conjugated C=C bond (citronellal) is rather low (23%).","PeriodicalId":250297,"journal":{"name":"The Open Physical Chemistry Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132053236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}