The 'Nano-to-Nano' Effect Applied to Organic Synthesis in Water A remarkable opportunity to use not only water as the reaction medium but very little surfactant and catalyst containing only ppm levels of metal under mild conditions

The remarkable benefits associated with the attraction of polyethylene glycol (PEG)-containing nanomicelles to metal nanoparticles in water allows for varying types of important catalysis to be done under very mild and green conditions.