Tartaric acid can be used as a chiral template to modify a specific surface of a copper catalyst

Nickel doping can prevent sintering in Pt nanoclusters at temperatures of up to 700 K

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Gold(I)-catalyzed hydroalkoxylation of 1,3-disubstitued allenes with good chirality transfer

Thermal exfoliation of fluorographite gives fluorographene with excellent catalytic properties

Selectively converting methane into carbon monoxide

Methane oxychlorination over vanadyl pyrophosphate

Palladium-catalyzed dehydroboration gives unsaturated ketones

Bifunctional carbon nanotube-boron nitride (CNT-BN) nanocomposite shows great potential as an electrocatalyst