1 PKU Green Chemistry Centre, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Stable and Unstable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
A soluble Pt nanocluster catalyst (Pt-GLY) is efficient in the absence of base for aqueous-phase aerobic oxidation of, in particular, non-activated alcohols with high recyclability.