The Development of Catalysis: A History of Key Processes and Personas in Catalytic Science and Technology

This book gradually brings the reader, through illustrations of the most crucial discoveries, into the modern world of chemical catalysis. Readers and experts will better understand the enormous influence that catalysis has given to the development of modern societies.     Highlights the field?s onset up to its modern days, covering the life and achievements of luminaries of the catalytic era     Appeals to general audience in interpretation and analysis, but preserves the precision and clarity of a scientific approach     Fills the gap in publications that cover the history of specific catalytic processes INDICE: Preface .Chapter 1. From the onset to the first large scale industrial processes.  .1.1. The Origin of the Catalytic Era .1.2. Berzelius and the Affinity Theory of Catalysis .1.3  The Discovery of the Occurrence of catalytic Processes in living Systems in the XIX Century. .1.4  The kinetic Interpretation of Catalytic Processes in Solutions. The Birth of Homogeneous  Catalysis .1.5  The Onset of heterogeneous Catalysis .1.6  The first large Scale industrial Processes based on heterogeneous Catalysts .1.7  The Fischer Tropsch catalytic Process .1.8  The Methanol Synthesis .1.9  Acetylene production and utilization .1.10 The anthraquinone process for hydrogen peroxide production .Chapter 2. Historical Development of Theories of Catalysis. .2.1. Heterogeneous catalysis. .2.2. Chemical Kinetics and the Mechanisms of Catalysis .2.3. The electronic Theory of catalysis. Active Sites .Chapter 3. Catalytic Processes associated with hydrocarbons and  petroleum Industry .3.1 The petroleum and polymers era  .3.2. Catalytic cracking, isomerization and alkylation of petroleum fractions. .3.3.The reforming Catalysts. .3.4 Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) Processes .3.5. The hydrocarbons hydrogenation reactions with heterogeneous catalysts .3.6. Olefin polymerization; Ziegler–Natta, metallocenes and Phillips  catalysts. .3.7. Selective oxidation reactions. .3.8. Ammoximation and Oxychlorination of Olefins .3.9. Ethylbenzene and styrene catalytic synthesis .3.10. Heterogeneous Metathesis .3.11. Catalytic Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene from Hydrocarbon Feedstocks. .Chapter 4. Surface Science Methods in the second Half of the XX Century. .4.1.Real dispersed catalysts versus single crystals: a decreasing gap. .4.2. Physical methods for the study of dispersed systems and real catalysts .4.3 . Surface Science of single Crystals Faces and of well defined systems .Chapter 5. The Development of Homogeneous and organo catalysis .5.1.Introductory remarks .5.2.Homogeneous Acid and Bases as Catalysts. G.Olah Contribution. .5.3.Organometallic Catalysts .5.4. Asymmetric Epoxidation Catalysts. .5.5.Olefin Oligomerization Catalysts. .5.6. Organometallic Metathesis. .5.7.Cross coupling Reactions .5.8. Pd(II)–based complexes and oxidation of methane to methanol .5.9 Non transition metal catalysis, organocatalysis and organo–organometallic catalysis combination .5.9. Bio–inspired Homogeneous Catalysts .Chapter 6. Material  science and catalysis design .6.1 Metallic catalysts .6.2 Oxides and mixed oxides. .6.3–Design of catalysts with  shape and transition state selectivity. .6.4.Zeolites and zeolitic materials: historical details .6.5. Zeolites and zeolitic materials structure. .6.6. Shape selective Reactions catalyzed by Zeolites and Zeolitic Materials .6.7. Organic– inorganic hybrid zeolitic materials and inorganic microprous Solids .6.8.Microporous polymers and metallorganic frameworks (MOFs). .Chapter 7. Photocatalysis .7.1.Photochemistry and Photocatalysis: interwoven branches of science .7.2. Photochemistry onset .7.3. Physical Methods in Photochemistry. .7.4. Heterogenous and homogeneus Photocatalysis .7.5 Natural Photosynthesis as model of photocatalysis .7.6.The most investigated artificial Photocatalytic Processes: Water Splitting, CO2 Reduction and Pollutants Degradation. .Chapter 8. Enzymatic catalysis .8.1. The early History of enzymes .8.2.Proteins and their Role in enzymatic Catalysis .8.3.The Enzymes/Coenzymes structure and the catalytic activity. .8.4. The Mechanism of Enzyme Catalysis. .8.5. Biocatalysis .Chapter 9. Miscellanea .9.1.Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis in prebiotic Chemistry .9.2.The opportunities for catalysis in the XXI century and the green chemistry .Index

• ISBN: 978-1-119-18126-2
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 21/04/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés