Novel Materials for Catalysis and Fuels Processing

Preface Part I: General Aspects 1. Design of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Fuels and Chemicals Processing: An Overview Juan J. Bravo-Suarez, Raghunath V. Chaudhari, and Bala Subramaniam Part II: Computer-Aided Design 2. Computational Studies of Structure and Catalytic Activity of Vanadia for Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation Lei Cheng and Larry A. Curtiss 3. Molecular Simulation of Carbon Capture in a Series of Isoreticular Zeolitic Imidazolate Materials Yao Houndonougbo Part III: Spectroscopic Characterization 4. Utilizing Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Study of Interfacial Phenomena: Probing Interactions on an Alumina Surface Eric V. Formo, Zili Wu, Shannon M. Mahurin, and Sheng Dai Part IV: Kinetics-Aided Design 5. Interactions of Sulfur Oxides with Diesel Oxidation Catalysts (DOCs) Hom N. Sharma, Steven L. Suib, and Ashish B. Mhadeshwar Part V: Applications Hydrodesulfurization 6. Hydrodesulfurization Studies on SBA-16 Supported Molybdenum Hydrotreating Catalysts Kapil Soni, Thallada Bhaskar, Manoj Kumar, Kamaraju Seetha Rama Rao, and Gudimella Murali Dhar Epoxidation 7. Characterization and Catalytic activity of Cu-TUD-1 for Styrene Epoxidation Muthusamy Poomalai Pachamuthu, Anand Ramanathan, Kannan Santhi, and Rajamanickam Maheswari 8. Rapid Room Temperature Synthesis of Ce-MCM-48: An Active Catalyst for trans-Stilbene Epoxidation with tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide Anand Ramanathan, Rajamanickam Maheswari, Prem S. Thapa, and Bala Subramaniam Syngas Conversion 9. Rhodium Nanoparticles Confined in Ordered Mesoporous Carbon: Microscopic Characterization and Catalytic Application for Synthesis Gas Conversion to Ethanol Song-Hai Chai, Jane Y. Howe, Michelle Kidder, Xiqing Wang, Viviane Schwartz, Steven H. Overbury, Sheng Dai, and De-en Jiang Dehydrogenation 10. Carbon-Mediated Catalysis: Oxidative Dehydrogenation on Graphitic Carbon Viviane Schwartz, Steven H. Overbury, and Chengdu Liang Emerging Areas ? Renewables Conversion 11. Supported Hybrid Enzyme-Organocatalysts for Upgrading the Carbon Content of Alcohols Kapil Kandel, Stacey M. Althaus, Marek Pruski, and Igor I. Slowing 12. Activity and Selectivity of Base Promoted Mono and Bimetallic Catalysts for Hydrogenolysis of Xylitol and Sorbitol Xin Jin, Bala Subramaniam, and Raghunath V. Chaudhari 13. The Effect of Calcination Temperature on the Properties and Hydrodeoxygenation Activity of Ni2P Catalysts Prepared Using Citric Acid Victoria M. L. Whiffen and Kevin J. Smith 14. Hydrocarbon Production from Carboxylic Acids via Catalytic Deoxygenation: Required Catalytic Properties Zhong He and Xianqin Wang Editors' Biographies Indexes Author Index Subject Index