Titanium-based Materials as Catalysts for Nonasymmetric Synthesis

Titanium-based Materials as Catalysts for Nonasymmetric Synthesis 

UCD School of Chemistiy and Chemical Biology, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland 

As a catalytic material it is widely used in polymerisation catalysis (see Chapter 6) and more recently has found application in asymmetric transformations (see Chapter 7). This chapter will focus on the use of titanium-containing materials (in the solid phase) in a range of processes as catalyst supports, as photocatalysts and as selective oxidation catalysts. 

Sustainable Catalysis With Non-endangered Metals, Part 1 

Titanium dioxide, normally a mixture of anatase and rutile phases (with brookite as a minor component) is a white powder commonly used in sunscreen (because of its UV-absorption properties) as well as in pigments (because of its brilliant white colour) has also been widely used as a catalyst support for active components. 

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