Heterogeneous catalysis brief survey

The introductory section (Chapter 1) presents a brief survey of the history of industrial heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. The survey shows that the availability of the feedstocks has had a decisive influence on the catalysts that have been developed. In some instances the chemical leads for new catalysts have lain dormant in the literature for a number years before they were developed into industrial processes. Subsequently (Chapter 2) a very limited selection of current industrial catalytic processes is described. These include the... 

This article was prepared as cin introduction to this symposium. Its aim was to provide a brief survey of heterogeneous catalysis before American contributions begcin. It makes no pretence to any contribution to scholarship (1). 

The topic of reactions in SCF media has been the subject of a number of reviews and surveys in recent years (7,8,12,20-30). Of note is a thorough review by Savage et al. (31) that provides a comprehensive analysis of this literature from 1985 to 1994. Several recent reviews have been more narrowly focused on specific topics. For example. Savage (32) and Baiker (33) present reviews of heterogeneous catalysis applications in SCF media, and Jessop and coworkers (34,35) focus on the homogeneous catalysis literature. Baiker s paper (33) includes a brief discussion on the various batch and continuous reactors that have been employed in much of the work discussed in these various reviews. Jessop and Leitner (36) recently edited a comprehensive monograph devoted exclusively to chemical synthesis in SCF media with contributions from a number of researchers in the field. 

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