Al2O3 Surface Complexation for Photocatalytic Organic Transformations

• Main Authors: Leow, Wan Ru, Ng, Wilson Kwok Hung, Peng, Tai, Liu, Xinfeng, Li, Bin, Shi, Wenxiong, Lum, Yanwei, Wang, Xiaotian, Sum, Tze Chien, Hirao, Hajime, Chen, Xiaodong, Lang, Xianjun, Li, Shuzhou, Mathews, Nripan, Ager, Joel W.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83308; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42517
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The use of sunlight to drive organic reactions constitutes a green and sustainable strategy for organic synthesis. Herein, we discovered that the earth-abundant aluminum oxide (Al2O3) though paradigmatically known to be an insulator could induce an immense increase in the selective photo-oxidation o...