47 Result(s)

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The Periodic Table, Zeolites and Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts

This brief account of the way in which the Periodic Table has guided the design of new and the improvement of existing heterogeneous catalysts should be regarded as a companion to that composed by Gómez-Hortig...

John Meurig Thomas in The Periodic Table II (2019)

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The enduring relevance and academic fascination of catalysis

Catalysis is a subject with a surprisingly long and rich history. It seems certain that it has an even brighter future as the challenges of our society require a focus on this discipline more than ever.

John Meurig Thomas in Nature Catalysis (2018)

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A Significant Life Journey in Surface Science

This is a personal account of Professor Wyn Roberts’ life in science by someone in close personal and scientific contact with him as a lifelong friend. It covers “The Early Days”, “His Scholarly Instincts”, “H...

John Meurig Thomas in Topics in Catalysis (2016)

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Molecular Biology and Peterhouse

John Meurig Thomas in Culture of Chemistry (2015)

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Designing Catalysts for Tomorrow’s Environmentally Benign Processes

After first recalling some of the key challenges involved in meeting the demands for energy and chemicals by 2050, brief accounts are given of (a) the present scene in water oxidation photocatalysis with parti...

John Meurig Thomas in Topics in Catalysis (2014)

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Can a Single Atom Serve as the Active Site in Some Heterogeneous Catalysts?

We examine a number of distinct situations relating to heterogeneous catalysts where either a single atom (or ion), or a very small cluster of atoms functions as the locus of chemical turnover in various disti...

John Meurig Thomas, Zineb Saghi, Pratibha L. Gai in Topics in Catalysis (2011)

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Mono-, Bi- and Multifunctional Single-Sites: Exploring the Interface Between Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis

This mini-review contrasts the characteristics of traditional heterogeneous (solid) catalysts with those of homogeneous ones: the nature of the active sites in each case is very different, a fact well illustra...

John Meurig Thomas, Robert Raja in Topics in Catalysis (2010)

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Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts: Innovations, Advantages, and Future Potential in Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology

The advantages that flow from the availability of single-site heterogeneous catalysts are many. They facilitate the determination of the kinetics and mechanism of catalytic turnover and render accessible the e...

Robert Raja, John Meurig Thomas in Model Systems in Catalysis (2010)

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A General Strategy for the Design of New Solid Catalysts for Environmentally Benign Conversions

After first outlining in qualitative terms progress made in predicting and modelling solids in general, a brief account is given of the substantial progress made in enumerating hypothetical open structures bas...

John Meurig Thomas, Juan Carlos Hernandez-Garrido, Robert G. Bell in Topics in Catalysis (2009)

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Preferential Clustering of Water Molecules During Hydration of the Ammonium Form of the Solid Acid Catalyst ZSM-5

Hydration of the ammonium form of the solid acid catalyst ZSM-5 is investigated by applying a technique developed recently for in situ solid-state NMR studies of adsorption processes. From high-resolution soli...

Mingcan Xu, Kenneth D. M. Harris, John Meurig Thomas in Catalysis Letters (2009)

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How Far is the Concept of Isolated Active Sites Valid in Solid Catalysts?

Oxide catalysts that have open structures and contain cations exhibiting usually just one or a few oxidation states, and those that are close-packed and contain transition metal ions in many different oxidatio...

John Meurig Thomas in Topics in Catalysis (2008)

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SPring-8 Technologies for the Design of Environmentally-friendly Catalysts and Photocatalysts

John Meurig Thomas in Topics in Catalysis (2008)

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The advantages and future potential of single-site heterogeneous catalysts

Using open-structure (nanoporous) solids, advantage may be taken of single-site catalytically active centres to effect an enormous range of conversions of organic compounds where regio-selectivity and shape-se...

John Meurig Thomas, Robert Raja in Topics in Catalysis (2006)

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Benign oxidants and single-site solid catalysts for the solvent-free selective oxidation of toluene

Two types of single-site heterogeneous catalysts have been designed so as to facilitate either the side-chain oxidation or ring-hydroxylation of toluene in O₂ (solvent-free) or by employing aqueous (H₂O₂) or orga...

Robert Raja, John Meurig Thomas, Valeria Dreyer in Catalysis Letters (2006)

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The tortuous tale of the catalytically active site

The emergence of the concept of the active site in heterogeneous catalysts is traced from the early, tentative view of H.S. Taylor in 1925 to the structurally well-defined active site (at αTiCl₃ prismatic faces) ...

John Meurig Thomas in Topics in Catalysis (2006)

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Ilya Moiseev: A Personal Note

John Meurig Thomas in Journal of Cluster Science (2005)