Nanocatalysis (eBook)

VIVEK POLSHETTIWAR, PhD, is Reader heading the Nanocatalysis Laboratory in the Department of Chemical Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. His research examines advanced nanomaterials, catalysis, and green chemistry. TEWODROS ASEFA, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University. Dr. Asefa is also Interim Director of the Rutgers Catalysis Research Center.

Foreword vii

Graham Hutchings

Preface ix

List of Contributors xiii

1 INTRODUCTION TO NANOCATALYSIS 1

Vivek Polshettiwar and Tewodros Asefa

2 NANOCATALYSTS FOR THE HECK COUPLING REACTIONS 11

T. Asefa, A. V. Biradar, S. Das, K. K. Sharma, and R.
Silva

3 NANOCATALYSTS FOR THE SUZUKI COUPLING REACTIONS 51

Liane M. Rossi, Natalia J. S. Costa, Jones Limberger, and
Adriano L. Monteiro

4 SONOGASHIRA REACTIONS USING NANOCATALYSTS 89

Rafael Chinchilla and Carmen N´ajera

5 NANOCATALYSTS FOR HIYAMA, STILLE, KUMADA, AND NEGISHI
C-C COUPLING REACTIONS 133

Abhinandan Banerjee and Robert W. J. Scott

6 ARYL CARBON-HETEROATOM COUPLING REACTIONS USING
NANOMETAL CATALYST 189

Brindaban C. Ranu, Debasree Saha, Debasish Kundu, and Nirmalya
Mukherjee

7 NANOSTRUCTURED CATALYSTS FOR THE ALDOL, KNOEVENAGEL, AND HENRY
REACTIONS 221

T. Asefa, A. V. Biradar, S. Das, and R. Silva

8 NANOCATALYSTS FOR REARRANGEMENT REACTIONS 251

Joaqu´yn Garc´ya-A´lvarez, Sergio E.
Garc´ya-Garrido, and Victorio Cadierno

9 OXIDATION OF ALCOHOLS USING NANOCATALYSTS 287

Takato Mitsudome and Kiyotomi Kaneda

10 TUNING THE MORPHOLOGY OF METAL OXIDES FOR CATALYTIC
APPLICATIONS 333

Yong Li and Wenjie Shen

11 NANOCATALYSTS FOR HYDROGENATION REACTIONS 405

Radha Narayanan

12 HYDROGENOLYSIS REACTIONS USING NANOCATALYSTS 443

Aziz Fihri and Vivek Polshettiwar

13 NANOMATERIAL-BASED PHOTOCATALYSTS 469

Biswajit Mishra and Deepa Khushalani

14 NANOCATALYSTS FOR WATER SPLITTING 495

Xu Zong, Gaoqing Lu, and Lianzhou Wang

15 PROPERTIES OF NANOCATALYTIC MATERIALS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES 561

Zhong He and Xianqin Wang

16 NANOCATALYSTS FOR BIOFUELS 595

Vitaliy Budarin, Peter S. Shuttleworth, Brigid Lanigan, and
James H. Clark

17 NANOMATERIAL-BASED BIOCATALYST 615

Jin Hyung Lee, Soo Youn Lee, Zhi-Kang Xu, and Jeong Ho
Chang

18 ROLE OF NANOCATALYSIS IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY 643

Anirban Ghosh, K. S. Nagabhushana, Debabrata Rautaray, and Rajiv
Kumar

19 NANOCATALYSIS: ACTIVATION OF SMALL MOLECULES AND CONVERSION
INTO USEFUL FEEDSTOCK 679

Suresh Babu Kalidindi and Balaji R. Jagirdar

Index 713