Catalysis

From environmental remediation to alternative fuels, this book explores the numerous important applications of photocatalysis.

This book looks at new ways of tackling the problem of separating reaction products from homogeneous catalytic solutions.

This book reviews chiral polymer synthesis and its application to asymmetric catalysis.

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

The encyclopedia consists 13 subareas as follows:1: Synthesis and Characterisation of Ionic Liquids (Section Editors: Prof.

Cross-coupling reactions involving C-H and C-X bond functionalisation are commonplace in natural product synthesis and natural products, therapeutic agents, biological probes, and advanced materials.

Representing the first text to cover this exciting new area of research, this book will describe synthesis techniques of CNWs, their characterization and various expected applications using CNWs.

This work revolves around the hydrogen economy and energy-storage electrochemical systems.

Chemistry and chemical technology have been at the heart of the revolutionary developments of the 20th century.

Oxidation reactions are an important chemical transformation in both academia and industry.

Gesche Berkhan beschreibt die Aufklärung der Hydropyranring-Bildung in den Ambruticin-Biosynthesewegen.

This book introduces readers to the use of formic acid for efficient organic synthesis.

This volume reviews the recent advances in formation of C-F bonds and X-F bonds (X = heteroatom) to produce useful fluorinated molecules for pharmaceuticals, materials and more.

Waste minimisation has a number of aims which include enhancing the intrinsic selectivity of any given process, providing a means of recovering reagents in a form which allows easy regeneration and the replacement of stoichiometric processes with catalytic ones.

Hannah Minges focuses on the investigation of two different FAD-dependent halogenases in order to analyze and improve their applicability for chemoenzymatic approaches in chemistry.

This book presents new data on combustion processes for practical applications, discussing fire safety issues in the development of flame arresters and the use of noble metals in hydrogen recombiners for nuclear power plants.

Homogeneous catalysis using transition metal complexes is an area of research that has grown enormously in recent years.

The series Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry presents critical reviews on present and future trends in the research of heterocyclic compounds.

This book is devoted to the new development of zeolitic catalysts with an emphasis on new strategies for the preparation of zeolites, novel techniques for their characterization and emerging applications of zeolites as catalysts for sustainable chemistry, especially in the fields of energy, biomass conversion and environmental protection.

A comprehensive and timely overview of this important and hot topic, with special emphasis placed on environmental applications and the potential for solar light harvesting.

In less than 20 years N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become well-established ancillary ligands for the preparation of transition metal-based catalysts.

This book presents a critical perspective of the applications of organometallic compounds (including those with metal or metalloid elements) and other related metal complexes as versatile functional materials in the transformation of light into electricity (solar energy conversion) and electricity into light (light generation in light emitting diode), in the reduction of carbon dioxide to useful chemicals, as well as in the safe and efficient production and utilization of hydrogen, which serves as an energy storage medium (i.

In this thesis, Andrew Logsdail demonstrates that computational chemistry is a powerful tool in contemporary nanoscience, complementing experimental observations and helping guide future experiments.

This book presents the applications of ion-exchange materials in the chemical and food industries.

This contributed volume provides a critical review of research in the field of Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis (EPOC).

This book deals with the electro-chemo-mechanical properties characteristic of and unique to solid electrode surfaces, covering interfacial electrochemistry and surface science.

This book comprises a detailed overview on the role of photocatalysts for environmental remediation, hydrogen production and carbon dioxide reduction.

This book presents a detailed analysis of Power-to-Gas, a promising energy storage technology.

The development of catalysts is the most sophisticated art in chemical sciences.

The origins of the petrochemical industry can be traced back to the 1920s when simple organic chemicals such as ethanol and isopropanol were first prepared on an industrial scale from by-products (ethylene and propylene) of oil refining.

Nanoparticles exhibit a range of different properties when compared to bulk materials.

Since 1948, this series has filled the gap between the papers that report on and the textbooks that teach in the diverse areas of catalysis research.

The literature contains tens of thousands of publications and patents devoted to the synthesis, characterization and processing of polymers.

This book provides a powerful source to develop new, rapid and highly efficient materials for the application in various fields of oil and gas.

This book explores key parameters, properties and fundamental concepts of electrocatalysis.

Homogeneous catalysis by soluble metal complexes has gained considerable attention due to its unique applications and features such as high activity and selectivity.

This book presents the latest results related to photocatalytic inactivation/killing of microorganisms, which is a promising alternative disinfection method that produces less or even no disinfection byproduct.

On January 1988, the ascertained and economically accessible reserves of Natural Gas (NG) amounted to over 144,000 billion cubic meters worldwide, corresponding to 124 billion tons of oil equivalents (comparable with the liquid oil reserves, which are estimated to be 138 billion TOE).

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

This book introduces carbon nanotubes as a matrix for efficient nanohybrid catalysis.

This book systematically reviews recent advances in the synthetic methods and applications of helicenes.

For a chemist who is concerned with the synthesis of new energetic compounds, it is essential to be able to assess physical and thermodynamic properties, as well as the sensitivity, of possible new energetic compounds before synthesis is attempted.

Metal Catalysed Reactions in Ionic Liquids is the first non-edited book on the subject of metal catalyzed reactions in ionic liquids to cover the literature from its origins until early 2005.

The development of catalysts is the most sophisticated art in chemical sciences.

This book presents the catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide into various hydrocarbons and other products using photochemical, electrochemical and thermo-chemical processes.