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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume 2017, Article ID 3958319, 14 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3958319
Research Article

Comparative Catalytic Evaluation of Nano-ZrOx Promoted Manganese Catalysts: Kinetic Study and the Effect of Dopant on the Aerobic Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols

Mohamed E. Assal,1 Mufsir Kuniyil,1,2 Mujeeb Khan,1 Mohammed Rafi Shaik,1 Abdulrahman Al-Warthan,1 Mohammed Rafiq H. Siddiqui,1 Joselito P. Labis,3 and Syed Farooq Adil1

1Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
2Department of Chemistry, K L University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh 522502, India
3King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Correspondence should be addressed to Syed Farooq Adil; as.ude.usk@lidafs

Received 15 March 2017; Revised 2 May 2017; Accepted 8 May 2017; Published 31 May 2017

Academic Editor: Mikhael Bechelany

Copyright © 2017 Mohamed E. Assal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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