Oxidative coupling of alcohols on gold: Insights from experiments and theory

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Xu B, Friend C. Oxidative coupling of alcohols on gold: Insights from experiments and theory. Faraday Discuss. 2011;152:307–320.

Abstract

... Bingjun Xu a and Cynthia M. Friend *ab. a Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. ... DFT results predict that methoxy is able to activate C –H bond in a nearby methoxy , which is confirmed by the isotopic labeling ...