  Thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters represent atomically well-defined active
centers for catalysis with resolved crystal structures, enabling the creation
of a homogeneous and defined surface. The correlation of characterization via
FT-IR spectroscopy with kinetics studies gives insight into the gold clusters
activity and tests their utilization to bridge the gap between organometallic
complex-based homogenous catalysis and nanoparticle based heterogeneous
catalysis as well as the gap between the bulk crystal structure model catalysis
and real-world catalysis.
