Abstract
In this work, we report oxidative cleavage of CC bonds in β-O-4 lignin models that is catalyzed by gold nanoparticles stabilized by graphene quantum dots (AuNPs-GQDs). We demonstrate that GQDs can enhance the catalytic activity of AuNPs. The AuNPs-GQDs shows the highest catalytic activity when the mass ratio of AuNPs to GQDs is of 1:18. Moreover, AuNPs-GQDs exhibits higher activity in the cleavage of CαCβ bond of the compounds when their Cβ is adjacent to an oxygen atom. The possible oxidation pathway is proposed.
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