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40 Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the financial support of "Strategic
Priority Research Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
(XDA07070600) and the National Natural Science Foundation of
China (21306203).
45 Notes and references
a Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, State Key
Laboratory of Multiphase Complex System, Institute of Process
Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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50 b College of Chemical and Engineering, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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supplementary information available should be included here]. See
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Fig. 11 Catalytic performance of the recycled Au/Ce0.6Zr0.4O2 for
the oxidative esterfication of benzaldehyde. Reaction conditions:
Catalyst 0.5g, benzaldehyde 0.04mol, K2CO3 0.15 g, methanol 40
mL, P(O2)=0.3 MPa, T=353 K, t=2 h.
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