Principles and Methods for Accelerated Catalyst Design and Testing: (69 NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

The pace of development in the chemical industry is increasing steadily, bring with it a corresponding need to develop catalysts as rapidly as possible. High throughput experimentation has had great success in drug design but hitherto it has scarcely been used in the catalysis field. There is thus a need to make the underlying principles of this methodology more widely understood, in a coherent, integrated format. This book aims to fulfill such a need - it delineates and consolidates the principles and methods underlying accelerated catalyst design and testing, identifies the main challenges for progress in the field and contains an extensive review of catalytic principles.

Table of Contents:
Section 1-Lectures.- Challenges and Strategies for the Implementation of Combinatorial Methods and High Throughput Testing in Heterogeneous Catalysis.- Problems and Challenges About Accelerated Testing of the Catalytic Activity of Catalysts.- Mass Transfer Limitations: A Bottleneck for High Throughput Screening in Multiphase Catalysis?.- Combinatorial Methodology and its Experimental Validation by Parallel Synthesis, Testing And Characterization of Solid Catalytic Materials.- The Combinatorial Approach for Heterogeneous Catalysis: a Challenge for Academic Research.- An Evolutionary Strategy for the Design and Evaluation of High- Throughput Experiments.- Organometallic Combinatorial Chemistry.- Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Development and Optimisation of Light Paraffin Isomerisation Catalysts.- Serial and Parallel Ways to Enhance and Accelerate Catalyst Testing.- Rapid Catalyst Testing in The Boreskov Institute of Catalysis.- Analysis and Modelling of Multi-Site Acid Catalysts.- Combinatorial and High Throughput Approaches in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Reality or Illusion.- Ultrafast Gas Chromatography.- SECTION 2—Communications.- Parallel Catalytic Synthesis of Phosphines and Related Ligands.- Mixed Oxide Catalysts for Oxidation of Propane to Acrylic Acid: a Method for the Preparation of Realistic Catalyst Libraries and Their Quantitative Assessment.- High Throughput Testing of Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of Carbon Monoxide to Ethanol.- Transformation of Short Chain n-Alkanes on Dodecatungstophosphoric Acid and its Cesium Salts.- Complete Catalytic Oxidation of Methane and Ethane over Supported Platinum, Palladium and Manganese Oxide Catalysts.- Rational Catalyst Selection and Optimization Versus Combinatorial? Case Study: Hydrogenolysys of Ethyl Laurateto 1-Dodecanol on Ru(Rh)-Sn(Re)/?-Al2o3 Catalysts.- Studies on the Ultrasonic Enhancement of the Catalytic Activity in the Hydrogenation of Citral.- Future Trends in the Worldwide Oil Refining Industry.- Catalyst Preparation and Testing for Catalytic Combustion of Chloromethanes.- Impulse Oscillation Model for Accelerated Catalyst Design.- Catalytic Oxidation of BINAP on (BINAp)Rh(co)cl.- Catalysts for Wastewater Treatment.- The Routes of Deep Oxidation Reactions on the CuCl2/Al203 Catalysts in the Ethylene Oxychlorination Process.- The Catalytic Dehydrochlorination of Polychloroethanes in a Gas Phase.- The Bimetallic Co-Containing Supported on Alumina Catalysts in the Synthesis on the Base of Carbon Oxides.- Theoretical Investigations of Mo Catalysts in Olefin Metathesis.- Differential Thermal Analysis and Thermal Gravimetry as Fast Methods to Test Catalytic Oxidation of Carbon Particulates.- Aniline Methylation over Modified Micro- and Mesoporous Catalysts.- Live Catalysis.- SECTION 3—Workshop.- Accelerated Catalyst Preparation and Characterisation.- Methods and Standards of Accelerated Catalyst Testing.- SECTION 4—Conclusions.- Principles and Methods for Accelerated Catalyst Design, Preparation, Testing, and Development: Conclusions of the NATO Advanced Study Institute.- Participants.- Author Index.