P-W-B-118 Effect of Alumina on the Aerobic Oxidation of Primary (benzyl alcohol) and Secondary (hydroxymatairesinol) Alcohols over Gold-Alumina Supported Catalysts

Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Ballroom B (Lawrence Convention Center)
Elena Smolentseva1, Vinicius V. Costa2, Olga Simakova3,4, Miguel Estrada1, Martin Lopez5, Sergey Beloshapkin6, Eunice Vargas7, Elena V. Gusevskaya2, Dmitry Yu. Murzin4 and Andrey Simakov1, (1)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, Mexico, (2)Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, (3)Åbo Academi University, Finland, (4)Åbo Akademi University, Finland, (5)Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniera de Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, (6)University of Limerick, Ireland, (7)Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico.
Supported gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) are considered to be promising catalysts for various reactions of fine chemistry. Recently it was found high activity of Au NPs supported on alumina in the aerobic oxidation of secondary alcohol (naturally occurring lignan hydroxymatairesinol (HMR)) to oxomatairesinol (oxoMAT), which exhibits high superoxide scavenging activity.

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