“…291, 2005; Chemical Society Reviews , vol. 37, 2008; two SI in Catalysts: “Gold Catalysts”, 2011 and “New Trends in Gold Catalysts”, 2013), many chapters and reviews (Bond and Thompson, 1999; Haruta, 2002, 2003, 2004; Hashmi, 2007; Hutchings, 2007; Yan et al, 2007; Carabineiro and Thompson, 2010; Gong, 2012; Hutchings and Edwards, 2012; Barakat et al, 2013; Guan et al, 2015; Ma et al, 2015), and a huge number of papers have tackled fundamental and applied aspects related to gold-based catalyst preparation methods and their impact on gold particle size, shape, and oxidation state, role of the nature of support and support effects, relationship between electronic and structural properties of the gold-based catalysts, and catalytic performance in various reactions. Many research efforts have been focused on elucidating a surprisingly high effectiveness of supported gold nanoparticles in a wide variety of processes.…”