The importance of solid catalysts for converting petroand bulk chemicals is reflected in the sheer magnitude of their market size: catalysts sales topped nine billion dollars in 2009. This large value mirrors also the increasing academic interest in heterogeneous catalysis research. As far as bulk chemicals (such as ethene, propene, and their derivatives) are concerned, there is a strong demand...

When heated, poly(lactic acid) (PLA) fibers depolymerize in a controlled manner, making them potentially useful as sacrificial fibers for microchannel fabrication. Catalysts that increase PLA depolymerization rates are explored and methods to incorporate them into commercially available PLA fibers by a solvent mixture impregnating technique are tested. In the present study, the most active cata...

This thesis is mainly focused on the development of new palladium catalyzed transformations using so-called “pincer” complexes. These complexes were applied as catalysts in two important areas of organometallic chemistry: substitution of propargylic substrates by dimetallic reagents; and allylation of aldehydes and imines by allylstannanes. In addition, this thesis includes studies on Lewis aci...

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis provides an important opportunity for utilization of biomass and plastic waste. Iron catalysts are the choice light olefin using reaction. In this paper, we investigate strong promoting effects antimony tin on catalytic performance silica supported iron a combination advanced in-situ techniques. The catalyst doping with these elements added via impregnation results in ...

Shortly after the original synthesis of silica-based mesoporous molecular materials (MCM-41) with uniformly sized pores,1,2 the supramolecular templating approach was extended to the synthesis of non-siliceous mesoporousmaterials based onboth transition andmaingroup metal oxides because of their potential application as solid electrolyte devices, high surface area catalysts, and sorbents, as we...