Catalytic strategies overview

We have overviewed some strategies for the surface-mediated fabrication of metal and alloy nanoscale wires and particles in mesoporous space, and their structural characterization and catalytic performances. Extension of the present approaches for metal/alloy nanowires may lead to the realization of the prospechve tailored design of super active, selective and stable catalysts applicable in industrial processes. The organometallic clusters and nanowires offer exciting and prospechve opportunities for the creahon of new catalysts for industry. Various metal/ alloy nanowires and nanoparhcles in the anisotropic arrangement in porous supports would help in understanding the unexpected electronic and optic properties due to the quantum effect, which are relevant to the rational design of advanced electronic and optic devices. 

This chapter overviews some strategies that have been developed and applied at the academic level, by presenting a case study on the basis of our own experience the search for new catalytic material and processes adapted to the production and purification of hydrogen for feeding PEM fuel cells. 

This chapter presents an overview of existing strategies for asymmetric catalytic epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins with synthetic catalysts. The significant progress in metal-catalyzed oxo transfer and dioxirane epoxidation has increased the accessibility of several classes of optically active epoxides and concurrently highlighted important problems yet to be solved. 

The development of conducting polymer (CP) nanocomposites has opened up novel fundamental and applied frontiers. The present chapter overviews recent works dealing with synthesis, characterization of CP nanocomposites, and then-applications related to biosensors. Various synthesis strategies, mechanism, and process parameters along with their characterization techniques are discussed. Some potential areas for biosensor-related applications of CP nanocomposites are highhghted, including catalytic biosensors and bioaffinity biosensors. 

This volume contains eight chapters from leading experts in the field, and is expected to provide an overview of the latest developments in C-C bond activation. It begins with mechanistic studies of transition metal-mediated C-C bond action by Prof. W.D. Jones, which laid the foundation for further discovery of catalytic reactions. The following chapters from Profs. Y. Nakao, C.-H. Jun, and C. J. Douglas focus on different strategies to activate unstrained C-C bonds, namely, C-CN bond activation, metal-organic cooperative catalysis, and activation of 8-acylquinolines. 

Basu and Mandal have presented a comprehensive review on various sustainable synthetic strategies leading to benzimidazoles, quinoxalines, and their congeners highlighting the scope, limitations, and plausible mechanisms. These heterocyclic scaffolds have already drawn considerable interests to the researchers at large for their well-established biological and pharmaceutical properties. The authors have given emphasis on the sustainable processes that involve solid-phase synthesis, biomimetic synthesis, combinatorial synthesis, various catalytic methods, and reactions promoted by different solid sinfaces, solvent-free or on-water conditions or xmder microwave irradiation. This overview would serve as a useful somce of information to the readers in this particular area of interest. 

In the first part of the presentation, an example will be given of the use of high-surface-area inorganic interfaces to control the catalytically driven biopiocesses of a biosystem of some complexity. The latter part of the presentation is a selected overview of some recent strategies for the synthesis of mniticompositional functional units and their use in controlling processes in chemo catalysis. 

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