Environmentally Benign Catalysts

Anjali Uday Patel received her Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry in 1986 from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, Gujarat, India and completed her Ph.D. in 1993 in the same institution. From 1993 to 1994 Dr. Patel completed her Post-Doctorate at the Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse (IRC), Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Lyon, France. Since 1997, she has joined the Department of Chemistry at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda where she is presently working as an Associate Professor. She teaches solid state chemistry, catalytic materials and catalysis to postgraduate students and leads a research group focusing on tailoring of new catalytic materials based on heteropolyacids/polyoxometalates, lacunary as well as transition metal substituted polyoxometalates and their applications for organic transformations such as esterification, alkylation, acylation, oxidation, Heck coupling, and bio-diesel production. She has published 60 papers in various international journals and has discovered one process (US 7692047 B2) and two catalysts (Indian patents filed: 2078/MUM/2010 and 3280/MUM/2010) patents.

Introduction.- Heteropoly compounds as ammoxidation catalysts.- Transition metal substituted salt of tungsten based polyoxometalates supported mesoporous silica as a Catalyst for Organic Transformation reactions.- Vanadium substituted tugstophosphoric acid supported on titania: A heterogeneous catalyst for selective oxidative cleavage of olefins to carbonyl compounds at room temperature.- Supported Heteropoly Acids and Multicomponent Polyoxometalates as Eco-Friendly Solid Catalysts for Bulk and Fine Chemicals Synthesis.- Glycerol Etherification with light Alcohols Promoted by Supported H3PW12O40.- Alkoxylation of Terpenes over Tungstophosphoric Acid Immobilised on Silica Support.- Effect of acidity, structure and stability of supported 12-tungstophosphoric acid on catalytic reactions.- Biodiesel production over 12-tungstosilisic acid anchored to different mesoporous silica supports.- Solvent free selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde over mono lacunary phosphomolybdatesupported onto hydrous zirconia.- H3PMo12O40 Heteropolyacid: A Versatile and Efficient Bifunctional Catalyst for the Oxidation and Esterification Reactions.- Electrochemical/ElectroCatalytic Applications of Polyoxometalates.