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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

An international journal for the quickest publication of high-quality research covering the breadth of synthetic, physical and biomolecular organic chemistry.




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Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 2389 - 2392, DOI: 10.1039/b505949f


Enhancing selectivity in oxidation catalysis with sol–gel nanocomposites

Pamela Gancitano, Rosaria Ciriminna, Maria Luisa Testa, Alexandra Fidalgo, Laura M. Ilharco and Mario Pagliaro


Valuable organic compounds such as -hydroxy acids are easily synthesised with relevant selectivity enhancement using a sol–gel hydrophobized nanostructured silica matrix doped with the organocatalyst TEMPO: A materials science based synthetic route which cannot be achieved via classical homogeneous synthesis.

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