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Professor Michel Che: Sino-French Chemist with Strong Anglophile Links
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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New Solid Catalysts for Clean Technology
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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...
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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...
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SPring-8 Technologies for the Design of Environmentally-friendly Catalysts and Photocatalysts
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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...
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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) ...
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A New Approach to the Design of Heterogeneous Single-Site Enantioselective Catalysts
We analyze the merits of an approach to the design of enantioselective catalysts that relies on constraining an anchored organometallic complex at the inner walls of mesoporous silica. Two distinct metal cente...
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Preface: Electron Microscopy and the Characterization of Heterogeneous Catalysts
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The Electron Microscope Is an Indispensable Instrument for the Characterisation of Catalysts
No other single instrument rivals the electron microscope in the wealth of structural (atomic, nanoscopic, mesoscopic and microscopic), topographic and electronic information that it provides in the characteri...
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Towards an Environmentally Acceptable Heterogeneous Catalytic Method of Producing Adipic Acid by the Oxidation of Hydrocarbons in Air
A survey is given of the catalytic methods potentially available for the production of adipic acid by the oxidation of readily available hydrocarbon precursors under environmentally benign conditions. Encourag...
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On the nature of isolated active sites in open-structure catalysts for the aerial oxidation of alkanes
Unique insights into structural aspects of ternary and quaternary oxide phases of selective oxidation catalysts containing bismuth and molybdenum are obtainable via high-resolution transmission electron micros...
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Gabor Arpad Somorjai: A Tribute
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Combining X‐ray absorption with X‐ray diffraction for the structural elucidation of catalysts
We describe how the combined XAS/XRD technique can provide powerful information on the structures of catalytically active centres. We consider some of the most industrially important catalysts, including Fe‐ZS...