Future directions of catalysis science – Workshop
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Four areas for the future directions of catalysis science were discussed. (1) There is a need for correlation of structure, dynamical rearrangements, transition states and reaction intermediates of enzyme, heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic systems through investigations of the same reactions under similar experimental conditions. Better understanding of the existing heterogeneous chiral catalytic systems is needed through in situ characterization to uncover new chiral systems. (2) New strategies of catalyst synthesis must be developed to establish molecular control over the structure, location and promoter distribution of catalysts. (3) Molecular characterization of the working catalysts, enzyme, heterogeneous and homogeneous, increasingly provides the crucial experimental information on structural details and leads to identification of elementary reaction steps. The frontiers of instrumentation are ever improving time resolution and spatial resolution and application under reaction conditions. (4) Catalytic cycles in soil and minerals and in the oceans must be identified by focussed efforts of collecting data and model studies. Other important directions of catalysis science include methane conversion, electrocatalysis, role of bulk hydrogen atom in catalytic hydrogenation, replacement of homogeneous acids by heterogeneous acid catalysts and further developments of the theory of catalytic processes.
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