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Catalytic processes and in particular heterogeneous catalysis are vital for todays industry. However, many industrial catalytic processes require high temperatures and pressures to work efficiently. This stands in contrast to biological catalysts, which fu ...
The electrochem. properties of IrO2 and RuO2 nanoparticles, deposited on synthetic B-doped diamond (BDD) surfaces, are discussed. After a description of the prepn. procedure and the morphol. characterization of BDD/IrO2 and BDD/RuO2 samples, the dispersion ...
To demonstrate the superiority of modern organometallic methods, the inexpensive starting material 1,3-difluorobenzene has been selectively converted into the three benzoic acids and all seven bromobenzoic acids contg. the two fluorine atoms in homovicinal ...
This review seeks to evaluate the role of low oxidation state transition metal clusters (metal carbonyl clusters) in catalysis. The review commences with a discussion of the cluster surface analogy and then proceeds to discuss whether catalysis takes place ...
Novel efficient structured combustion catalysts based on sintered metal fiber filters (MFF) were developed. To increase sp. surface area (SSA), metal fibers were coated by crack-free porous oxide films of SiO2, Al2O3, porous glass, and mesoporous SBA-15 si ...
The oxidn. of nickel gauze catalysts by O2 was investigated by transient response methods. Qual. description of the exptl. transient responses have shown that the oxidn. of metallic nickel proceeds in two stages. The first step is a fast dissocn. of gaseou ...
A review is given on the so-called electrochem. promotion (EP) denoting an elec. controlled modification of the activity and/or selectivity of a heterogeneous catalyst. Efficient EP in dispersed catalyst systems can be achieved using porous solid-electroly ...
The work presents the effect of K-doping on V/Ti-oxides taking into account: the surface acid–base properties and the structure of surface vanadia species in respect to the catalyst performance and deactivation. The structure of active surface species dete ...
The relation between the catalyst potential and the catalytic performance has been investigated in the gas-phase combustion of propylene with oxygen over rhodium catalysts at 375 DegC. The rhodium catalyst, deposited on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) sol ...
The diphosphane-substituted clusters [Ru-3(CO)(10)(dppe)] and [Ru-3(CO)(8)(dppe)(2)] [dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphanyl)ethane] are shown to catalytically hydrogenate diphenylacetylene. This process is highly solvent-dependent with fragmentation dominating ...
