Catalysis

This book provides an overview of bioinspired metal-sulfur catalysis by covering structures, activities and model complexes of enzymes exhibiting metal sulphur moieties in their active center.

Catalysts speed up a chemical reaction or allow for reactions to take place that would not otherwise occur.

The book covers advances in conversion of biomass and derivatives into useful chemicals and fuels.

There is an increasing challenge for chemical industry and research institutions to find cost-efficient and environmentally sound methods of converting natural resources into fuels chemicals and energy.

This book investigates the use of palladium modified by bulky ligands as catalysts for new chemical transformations that rapidly assemble several classes of complex heterocyles.

Sulfur compounds contaminate many industrially important feedstocks and, on release to the atmosphere as sulfur oxides, can cause widespread damage to the ecosystem.

Historically the field of heterogeneous catalysis has focused on the design and optimisation of the catalytic materials.

In this book, recent advancements in the heterocycles functionalization by using different transition metals have been described.

In recent years polymerisation using organocatalysts has become an appealing alternative to more traditional metal-based catalysts.

The book gives a unique overview of this rapidly developing research field, presenting structures and properties of flavin derivatives as well as their proven application as bioinspired catalysts in various organocatalytic, biocatalytic, and photocatalytic reactions.

This book presents the current status of CO2 utilization from fundamental studies to industrial tests.

This book presents recent advances in and perspectives on the use of organoselenium compounds, primarily highlighting the new frontiers in the field of Green Chemistry, their therapeutic and biological relevance and new materials.

An expert overview of new technologies guiding the construction of a sustainable society This compendium of important insights from sixty distinguished international scholars looks at the significant advances in progressive environmental technology especially the molecular engineering used on plants, animals, and microorganisms as the game changer in the high-stakes race to reverse earth-damaging practices.

Catalysis remains a key technology in a huge number of industrial processes in the 21st century.

HELPS RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEW CATALYSTS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUEL AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTION Reviewing the latest developments in the field, this book explores the in-situ characterization of heterogeneous catalysts, enabling readers to take full advantage of the sophisticated techniques used to study heterogeneous catalysts and reaction mechanisms.

This thesis describes a series of investigations designed to assess the value of metalloenzymes in systems for artificial and adapted photosynthesis.

It is now IS years since the first patents in polymer supported metal complex catalysts were taken out.

This book covers a significant number of R&D projects, performed mostly after 2000, devoted to the understanding and prevention of performance degradation processes in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs).

This book provides a comprehensive description of the catalytic technologies for selective hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexene.

Catalysis is at the heart of the chemical industry, which uses solid catalysts for the large-scale production of commodity chemicals.

This book reviews the impact of water content in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as well as the reactivity of anodes, cathodes and electrolytes with water and processes that provide water-resistance to materials in LIBs.

The purpose of this book is to review the current, state-of-the-art application of isotopic methods to the field of heterogeneous catalysis.

The principal aim of this book is to introduce chemists through a tutorial approach to the use of microwaves by examining several experiments of microwave chemistry and materials processing.

Advances in Catalysis fills the gap between the journal papers and the textbooks across the diverse areas of catalysis research.

This book explores the formation of colloidal gold-copper (AuCu) alloy nanoparticles and evaluate their application in heterogeneous catalysis.

Opens the door to the sustainable production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals Driven by both public demand and government regulations, pharmaceutical and fine chemical manufacturers are increasingly seeking to replace stoichiometric reagents used in synthetic transformations with catalytic routes in order to develop greener, safer, and more cost-effective chemical processes.

This is a set of two books dedicated to presenting the latest novel and advanced research from around the world in this exciting area.

This first book to illuminate this important aspect of chemical synthesis improves the lifetime of catalysts, thus reducing material and saving energy, costs and waste.

An outstanding international scientific event in the field of metathesis chemistry, the NATO ASI "e;Green Metathesis Chemistry: Great Challenges in Synthesis, Catalysis and Nanotechnology"e; has been recently organized in Bucharest, Romania (July 21- August 2, 2008).

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 awarded to Gerhard Ertl for his groundbreaking studies in surface chemistry highlighted the importance of heterogeneous catalysis not only for modern chemical industry but also for environmental protection.

The efficient conversion of biomass to value-added products has become a major research area in the pursuit of alternatives to petroleum-based feedstocks; hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis are important tools to achieving this aim.

This volume gives a detailed account into how renewables can be transformed into value-added products via homogeneous catalysis, especially via transiton metal homogeneous catalysis.

This book presents carbon nanotubes as a potential material for the development of new waste water treatment technologies.

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This book underscores the essential principles of photocatalysis and provides an update on its scientific foundations, research advances, and current opinions, and interpretations.

As 2019 has been declared the International Year of the Periodic Table, it is appropriate that Structure and Bonding marks this anniversary with two special volumes.

Global experts provide an authoritative source of information on the use of electrochemical fuel cells, and in particular discuss the use of nanomaterials to enhance the performance of existing energy systems.

This handbook is a valuable resource for scientists, engineers, graduate students, managers, decision makers, and those who are interested in ionic liquids.

The completely revised third edition of this four-volume classic is fully updated and now includes such topics as as CH-activation and multicomponent reactions.

This volume describes the recent developments in the free-radical mediated synthesis and elaboration of heterocycles.

This book reviews contaminants of emerging nature affecting the agroecosystem and includes important information regarding the their sources, types, transportation, environmental threats and strategies to decontaminate the affected agroecosystems.

Water is abundant in nature, non-toxic, non-flammable and renewable and could therefore be safer and economical for the chemical industry wherever it is used as a solvent.

This book provides detailed information on the base catalysis of group 5 (Nb, Ta) metal oxide clusters by elucidating how the structural factors such as constituent metals, counter cations, and local structures of base sites affect their catalysis.

This volume provides the reader with the most up-to-date and relevant knowledge on the reactivity of metals located in zeolite materials, either in framework or extra-framework positions, and the way it is connected with the nature of the chemical environment provided by the host.

The series Topics in Organometallic Chemistry presents critical overviews of research results in organometallic chemistry.

This book covers whole aspects of the sulfur isologues of amides.