Note: Intro -- Selective Nanocatalysts and Nanoscience: Concepts for Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1: The Structure and Reactivity of Single and Multiple Sites on Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysts: Analogies, Differences, and Challenges for Characterization Methods -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Definition of Multiple-and Single-Site Centers in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis -- 1.2.1 Single-Site Homogeneous Catalysts: Prototype Examples Taken from the Literature -- 1.2.2 Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts -- 1.2.2.1 TS-1 and the Shape Selectivity -- 1.2.2.2 H-ZSM-5: A Popular Example of Protonic Zeolite -- 1.2.2.3 The Ziegler-Natta Polymerization Catalyst -- 1.2.2.4 The Cr/SiO2 Phillips Catalyst for Ethylene Polymerization -- 1.2.3 Multiple-Site Heterogeneous Center -- 1.2.3.1 Surface Engineering and Selectivity in Heterogeneous Enantioselective Hydrogenation Catalysts -- 1.2.3.2 Is It Heterogeneous or Homogeneous? The Interplay between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts -- 1.3 The Characterization Methods in Heterogeneous Catalysis (Including Operando Methods) -- 1.3.1 TS-1-(H2O, H2O2) Interaction: in situ XANES Experiments -- 1.3.2 H-ZSM5-Propene Interaction: An Example of Operando Experiment by Fast Scanning FTIR Spectroscopy -- 1.3.3 Phillips Catalyst: The Search of Precursors and Intermediates in Ethylene Polymerization Reaction by Temperature-and Time-Dependent FTIR Experiments -- 1.4 Conclusions -- References -- 2: Supported Nanoparticles and Selective Catalysis: A Surface Science Approach -- 2.1 General Introduction -- 2.2 Synthesis of Supported Metal Nanoparticles: Size and Shape Control -- 2.2.1 General Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles -- 2.2.2 Synthetic Methodologies for Supported Metal Nanoparticles -- 2.2.2.1 Metal Nanoparticles Stabilized by Polymeric Materials. , 2.2.2.2 Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon Nanotubes -- 2.2.2.3 Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Metal Oxides -- 2.2.2.4 Metal Nanoparticles in Mesoporous Silica -- 2.3 Selective Catalysis of Supported Metal Nanoparticles -- 2.3.1 Shape or Surface Structure Effect on Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde and Benzene -- 2.3.2 Shape or Surface Structure Effect on the Selective Decomposition of Methanol -- 2.3.3 Size Effect on the Selective Hydrogenation of 1,3-Butadiene and Pyrrole -- 2.3.4 Support Effect on the Selective Catalysis -- 2.4 Summary -- References -- 3: When Does Catalysis with Transition Metal Complexes Turn into Catalysis by Nanoparticles? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Homogeneous Catalysis -- 3.1.2 Heterogeneous Metal Catalysis -- 3.1.3 Catalysis with Soluble Metal Nanoparticles -- 3.1.4 The Border between the Three Forms of Catalysis -- 3.2 Nanoparticles vs. Homogeneous Catalysts in C-C Bond-Forming Reactions -- 3.2.1 The Heck-Mizoroki Reaction -- 3.2.2 The Kumada-Corriu Reaction -- 3.2.3 The Suzuki Reaction -- 3.2.4 The Negishi Reaction -- 3.2.5 The Sonogashira Reaction -- 3.2.6 Allylic Alkylation -- 3.3 Nanoparticles vs. Homogeneous Catalysts in Hydrogenation Reactions -- 3.3.1 Hydrogenation of Arenes -- 3.3.2 Asymmetric Hydrogenation -- 3.4 Platinum-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- 4: Capsules and Cavitands: Synthetic Catalysts of Nanometric Dimension -- 4.1 Introduction on Supramolecular Catalysis -- 4.1.1 Weak Intermolecular Forces -- 4.1.2 Compartmentalization and Catalysis -- 4.1.3 Cavitands and Self-Assembled Capsules as Synthetic Enzymes -- 4.2 Compartmentalization of Reactive Species in Synthetic Hosts as Supramolecular Catalysts -- 4.2.1 Cavitands and Capsules as Synthetic Enzymes -- 4.2.1.1 Reversible Reactions -- 4.2.2 Irreversible Reactions -- 4.2.2.1 Cavitand Catalysts. , 4.2.2.2 Self-Assembled Capsule Catalysts -- 4.3 Conclusions -- 4.4 Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5: Photocatalysts: Nanostructured Photocatalytic Materials for Solar Energy Conversion -- 5.1 Principles of Overall Water Splitting Using Nanostructured Particulate Photocatalysts -- 5.1.1 Introduction to Photocatalytic Water Splitting -- 5.1.2 Energetics and Materials -- 5.1.3 Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Sites -- 5.2 Oxide Photocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting -- 5.2.1 Nanostructures of Particulate Photocatalysts -- 5.2.1.1 NiO/Ni/SrTiO3 -- 5.2.1.2 NiO/NaTaO3:La -- 5.2.2 Photocatalysts with Ion-Exchangeable Layered Structures -- 5.2.2.1 NiK4Nb6O17 -- 5.2.2.2 NiO/Ni/Rb2La2Ti3O10 -- 5.3 Visible Light-Responsive Photocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting -- 5.3.1 (Oxy)nitrides and Oxysulfides as Photocatalysts -- 5.3.2 Overall Water Splitting on Oxynitride Photocatalysts under Visible Light -- 5.3.3 Nanostructured Hydrogen Evolution Sites -- 5.4 Conclusions -- References -- 6: Chiral Catalysts -- 6.1 The Origin of Enantioselectivity in Catalytic Processes: the Nanoscale of Enantioselective Catalysis -- 6.2 Parameters Affecting the Geometry of the Metal Environment -- 6.2.1 The Modification of the Chiral Pocket -- 6.2.2 Distal Modifications and Conformational Consequences -- 6.2.3 Additional Ligands: Anions, Solvents, and Additives -- 6.2.4 Parameters Beyond the Molecular Scale: Aggregates and Supported Catalysts -- 6.3 Case of Study (1): Bis(oxazoline)-Cu Catalysts for Cyclopropanation -- 6.3.1 The Mechanism of Chiral Induction -- 6.3.2 The Importance of Symmetry: C1 versus C2 -- 6.3.3 Distal Modifications: Substitution in the Methylene Bridge -- 6.3.4 Effect of Anion -- 6.4 Case of Study (2): Catalysts for Diels-Alder Reactions -- 6.4.1 Enantioselectivity in Diels-Alder Reactions. , 6.4.2 Chiral Pocket in Box-Metal Complexes: Ligand, Metal, and Additives -- 6.4.3 The Poorly Understood Effect of Surface -- 6.4.4 Similar But Not the Same: Control of Induction Sense with Different Lanthanides -- 6.4.5 Chiral Relay Effects -- 6.4.6 Subtle Changes in TADDOLate Geometry: Substitution and Immobilization -- 6.5 Case of Study (3): Salen-Based Catalysts -- 6.5.1 The Structural Variations of Salen Ligands and Complexes -- 6.5.2 Effects of the Structural Variations in Epoxidation Reactions Catalyzed by Salen-Mn Complexes -- 6.5.3 Control of the Sense of Asymmetric Induction in Salen-Ru Complexes -- 6.6 Case of Study (4): Multifunctional Catalysis -- 6.6.1 Cooperative Effects -- 6.6.2 Intermolecular Homobimetallic Catalysis -- 6.6.3 Intermolecular Heterobimetallic Catalysis -- 6.6.4 Intramolecular Homobimetallic Catalysis -- 6.6.5 Intramolecular Heterobimetallic Catalysis -- 6.7 Conclusions -- References -- 7: Selective Catalysts for Petrochemical Industry Shape Selectivity in Microporous Materials -- 7.1 Overview of Petrochemical Industry and Refinery Processes -- 7.1.1 Primary Raw Materials for the Petrochemical Industry -- 7.1.2 Processing of Petroleum and Natural Gas -- 7.2 Catalysis in the Petrochemical Industry -- 7.2.1 The Importance of Catalysis -- 7.2.2 Catalyst Selectivity -- 7.3 Microporous Materials and Shape Selectivity -- 7.3.1 Zeolites and Zeotypes -- 7.3.2 Catalytic Sites in Zeolites and Zeotypes -- 7.3.3 Zeolites in Petrochemistry and Refining -- 7.3.4 Zeolites as Shape-Selective Catalysts -- 7.4 Selected Examples of Shape-Selective Catalysis by Zeolites/Zeotypes -- 7.4.1 Industrial Relevance of the Conversion of Methanol to Hydrocarbons -- 7.4.2 Shape Selectivity in the Conversion of Methanol to Hydrocarbons -- 7.4.3 Industrial Relevance of Hydroconversion Reactions -- 7.4.4 Shape Selectivity in Hydrocracking. , 7.4.5 Industrial Relevance of Carbonylation Reactions -- 7.4.6 Shape Selectivity in Carbonylation -- 7.5 Summary and Outlook -- References -- 8: Crystal Engineering of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Catalysis -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Volatile Molecules Coordinated Metal Nodes Acted as Catalytic Centers -- 8.3 Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal Nodes Acted as Catalytic Centers -- 8.4 Coordinatively Unsaturated Catalytic Metal Ions Exposed in the Pores of MOFs -- 8.5 Guest-Accessible Catalytically Functionalized Organic Sites in Porous MOF -- 8.6 Nanochannel-Promoted Polymerization of Organic Substrates in Porous MOFs -- 8.7 Homochiral MOFs Used as Enantioselective Catalysts -- 8.8 Conclusions and Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9: Mechanism of Stereospecific Propene Polymerization Promoted by Metallocene and Nonmetallocene Catalysts -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Mechanism of Polymerization -- 9.2.1 The Chain Growth Reaction -- 9.2.2 Regioselectivity of Propene Insertion -- 9.3 Elements of Chirality -- 9.4 Chiral-Site Stereocontrol: Isotactic Polypropylene by Primary Propene Insertion -- 9.4.1 Well-Defined C2-Symmetric Metallocene Catalysts -- 9.4.2 Well-Defined Bis(Phenoxy-Amine)-Based Octahedral Catalysts and Poorly Defined Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalytic Systems -- 9.5 Chiral-Site Stereocontrol: Syndiotactic Polypropylene by Primary Propene Insertion -- 9.6 Chain-End Stereocontrol: Syndiotactic Polypropylene by Secondary Propene Insertion -- 9.6.1 Well-Defined Bis(Phenoxy-Imine)-Based Octahedral Catalysts -- 9.6.2 Poorly Defined V-Based Catalytic Systems -- 9.7 Conclusions -- References -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 From the Onset to the First Large-Scale Industrial Processes -- 1.1 Origin of the Catalytic Era -- 1.2 Berzelius and the Affinity Theory of Catalysis -- 1.3 Discovery of the Occurrence of Catalytic Processes in Living Systems in the Nineteenth Century -- 1.4 Kinetic Interpretation of Catalytic Processes in Solutions: The Birth of Homogeneous Catalysis -- 1.5 Onset of Heterogeneous Catalysis -- 1.6 First Large-Scale Industrial Processes Based on Heterogeneous Catalysts -- 1.6.1 Sulfuric Acid Synthesis -- 1.6.2 Ammonia Problem -- 1.6.3 Ammonia Oxidation Process -- 1.6.4 Ammonia Synthesis -- 1.7 Fischer-Tropsch Catalytic Process -- 1.8 Methanol Synthesis -- 1.9 Acetylene Production and Utilization -- 1.10 Anthraquinone Process for Hydrogen Peroxide Production -- References -- Chapter 2 Historical Development of Theories of Catalysis -- 2.1 Heterogeneous Catalysis -- 2.2 Chemical Kinetics and the Mechanisms of Catalysis -- 2.3 Electronic Theory of Catalysis: Active Sites -- References -- Chapter 3 Catalytic Processes Associated with Hydrocarbons and the Petroleum Industry -- 3.1 Petroleum and Polymer Eras -- 3.2 Catalytic Cracking, Isomerization, and Alkylation of Petroleum Fractions -- 3.3 Reforming Catalysts -- 3.4 Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) Processes -- 3.5 Hydrocarbon Hydrogenation Reactions with Heterogeneous Catalysts -- 3.6 Olefin Polymerization: Ziegler-Natta, Metallocenes, and Phillips Catalysts -- 3.7 Selective Oxidation Reactions -- 3.7.1 Alkane Oxidation -- 3.7.2 Olefin Oxidation -- 3.7.3 Aromatic Compounds Oxidation -- 3.8 Ammoximation and Oxychlorination of Olefins -- 3.9 Ethylbenzene and Styrene Catalytic Synthesis -- 3.10 Heterogeneous Metathesis -- 3.11 Catalytic Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene from Hydrocarbon Feedstocks -- References. , Chapter 4 Surface Science Methods in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- 4.1 Real Dispersed Catalysts versus Single Crystals: A Decreasing Gap -- 4.2 Physical Methods for the Study of Dispersed Systems and Real Catalysts -- 4.3 Surface Science of Single-Crystal Faces and of Well-defined Systems -- References -- Chapter 5 Development of Homogeneous Catalysis and Organocatalysis -- 5.1 Introductory Remarks -- 5.2 Homogeneous Acid and Bases as Catalysts: G. Olah Contribution -- 5.3 Organometallic Catalysts -- 5.4 Asymmetric Epoxidation Catalysts -- 5.5 Olefin Oligomerization Catalysts -- 5.6 Organometallic Metathesis -- 5.7 Cross-Coupling Reactions -- 5.8 Pd(II)-Based Complexes and Oxidation of Methane to Methanol -- 5.9 Non-transition Metal Catalysis, Organocatalysis, and Organo-Organometallic Catalysis Combination -- 5.9.1 Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation and Hydrogenation -- 5.9.2 Amino Catalysis -- 5.10 Bio-inspired Homogeneous Catalysts -- References -- Chapter 6 Material Science and Catalysis Design -- 6.1 Metallic Catalysts -- 6.2 Oxides and Mixed Oxides -- 6.2.1 SiO2 and SiO2-Based Catalysts and Processes -- 6.2.2 Al2O3 and Al2O3-Based Catalysts and Processes -- 6.2.3 SiO2-Al2O3- and SiO2-Al2O3-Based Catalysts and Processes -- 6.2.4 MgO- and MgO-Based Catalysts and Processes -- 6.2.5 ZrO2 and ZrO2-Based Catalysts and Processes -- 6.3 Design of Catalysts with Shape and Transition-State Selectivity -- 6.4 Zeolites and Zeolitic Materials: Historical Details -- 6.5 Zeolites and Zeolitic Materials Structure -- 6.6 Shape-Selective Reactions Catalyzed by Zeolites and Zeolitic Materials -- 6.6.1 Alkanes- and Alkene-Cracking and Isomerization -- 6.6.2 Aromatic Ring Positional Isomerizations -- 6.6.3 Synthesis of Ethyl Benzene, Cumene, and Alkylation of Aromatic Molecules -- 6.6.4 Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Aromatic Molecules. , 6.6.5 Toluene Alkylation with Methanol -- 6.6.6 Asaki Process for Cyclohexanol Synthesis -- 6.6.7 Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) Process -- 6.6.8 Nitto Process -- 6.6.9 Butylamine Synthesis -- 6.6.10 Beckman Rearrangements on Silicalite Catalyst -- 6.6.11 Partial Oxidation Reactions Using Titanium Silicalite -- 6.6.12 Nylon-6 Synthesis: The Role of Zeolitic Catalysts -- 6.6.13 Pharmaceutical Product Synthesis -- 6.7 Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Zeolitic Materials and Inorganic Microporous Solids -- 6.7.1 Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Zeolitic Materials -- 6.7.2 ETS-10: A Microporous Material Containing Monodimensional TiO2 Chains -- 6.7.3 Hydrotalcites: Microporous Solids with Exchangeable Anions -- 6.8 Microporous Polymers and Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) -- 6.8.1 Microporous Polymers -- 6.8.2 Metal-organic Frameworks -- References -- Chapter 7 Photocatalysis -- 7.1 Photochemistry and Photocatalysis: Interwoven Branches of Science -- 7.2 Photochemistry Onset -- 7.3 Physical Methods in Photochemistry -- 7.4 Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Photocatalysis -- 7.5 Natural Photosynthesis as Model of Photocatalysis -- 7.6 Water Splitting, CO2 Reduction, and Pollutant Degradation: The Most Investigated Artificial Photocatalytic Processes -- 7.6.1 Water Splitting -- 7.6.2 CO2 Photoreduction -- 7.6.3 Photocatalysis in Environmental Protection -- References -- Chapter 8 Enzymatic Catalysis -- 8.1 Early History of Enzymes -- 8.2 Proteins and Their Role in Enzymatic Catalysis -- 8.3 Enzymes/Coenzymes Structure and Catalytic Activity -- 8.4 Mechanism of Enzyme Catalysis -- 8.5 Biocatalysis -- References -- Chapter 9 Miscellanea -- 9.1 Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis in Prebiotic Chemistry -- 9.2 Opportunities for Catalysis in the Twenty-First Century and the Green Chemistry -- References -- Index -- EULA.