Rational design of single-site heterogeneous catalysts: Towards high chemo-, regio-and stereoselectivity

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 468, Issue 2143, 2012, Pages 1904-1926

  Dal Santo, Vladimiro ^a   Guidotti, Matteo ^a   Psaro, Rinaldo ^a   Marchese, Leonardo ^b   Carniato, Fabio ^b   Bisio, Chiara ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epoxidation; Heterogeneous catalysis; Hydrogenation; Nanostructured catalysts; Selectivity; Single sites

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; EPOXIDATION; HYDROGENATION; METALS; POROUS MATERIALS;

CATALYTIC SYSTEM; CATALYTICALLY-ACTIVE METALS; DIRECT SYNTHESIS; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYST; INORGANIC OXIDES; KEY FACTORS; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NANO-ARCHITECTURE; NANO-STRUCTURED CATALYST; POSTSYNTHESIS; RATIONAL DESIGN; SELECTED EXAMPLES; SINGLE SITES;

STEREOSELECTIVITY;

EID: 84862232514     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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