Heterogeneous Catalysis: Faraday Society Discussion

Highlights from Faraday Discussion: Designing New Heterogeneous Catalysts, London, UK, April 2016.

The Faraday Discussion on the design of new heterogeneous catalysts took place from 4-6 April 2016 in London, United Kingdom. It brought together world leading scientists actively involved in the synthesis, characterisation, modelling and testing of solid catalysts, attracting more than one hundred delegates from a broad spectrum of backgrounds and experience levels - academic and industrial re...

Southwest Catalysis Society (swcs)

Distributed hydrogen for the hydrogen economy will require new catalysts and processes. Existing large scale hydrocarbon steam reforming plants can not simply be reduced in size to meet the size, economic, safety, and frequent duty cycle requirements for applications for fuel cells, hydrogen fueling stations, and industrial uses such as hydrogenation reactions, gas turbine cooling, metal proces...

Southwest Catalysis Society

Heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis*

Examples of enantioselective catalysts, including homogeneous supported catalysts and biphasic liquid/liquid, are described and compared. In the case of asymmetric hydride transfer, polythiourea was proven to be more efficient for ruthenium-catalyzed reduction of aryl ketones, although the iridium complexes gave rise to higher ee when using amino sulfonamide bound to a polystyrene matrix. In th...

Heterogeneous Catalysis for Environmental Remediation

The intensive human activities in chemical industry and environmental purification urge the development of advanced protocols for green production and waste management. In environmental science, developing highly efficient and environmentally-friendly catalytic materials and systems are very favourable approaches to green chemical synthesis and remediation of contaminated air, soil, and wastewa...