Black matter in catalysis: Graphitic carbon catalyzes the insertion of O atoms into acrolein. Such complex multistep atom rearrangements were believed to be the exclusive domain of metal (oxide) catalysis. In the C-catalyzed process, the nucleophilic O atoms terminating the graphite (0001) surface abstract the formyl H atom and the activated aldehyde is oxidized by a mobile epoxide O atom. Thus, the sp2 carbon acts as a bifunctional catalyst. © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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Frank, B., Blume, R., Rinaldi, A., Trunschke, A., & Schlögl, R. (2011). Oxygen insertion catalysis by sp2 carbon. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 50(43), 10226–10230. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201103340
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