MICROPOROUS OPEN STRUCTURES FOR THE DESIGN OF NEW SINGLE-SITE HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSTS

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• The Salient Characteristics of Microporous SSHCs

• Some Examples of Acidic Microporous SSHCs

  • Environmentally benign, solvent-free alkylations, acylations and nitrations using acidic SSHCs^19–22

  • Brønsted acidic microporous SSHCs for hydroisomerization (dewaxing) of alkanes: designing new catalysts in silico

• Brønsted Acidic Microporous SSHCs for the Dehydration of Alkanols: Environmentally Benign Routes to Ethylene, Propylene and Other Light Alkenes

  • Catalytic dehydration of ethanol using Brønsted acidic SSHCs

  • The methanol-to-olefin conversion over Brønsted acidic SSHCs

  • Structural and mechanistic aspects of the dehydration of isomeric butanols over porous aluminosilicate acid catalysts ⁴²

• Lewis Acidic Microporous SSHCs for a Range of Selective Oxidations

• Cascade Reactions with TAPO-5

  • One-pot reactions: a contribution to environmental protection using Lewis acid active sites

• Redox Active Sites in Microporous Solids

  • Introduction

  • Single-site redox active centres for the benign selective oxidation of hydrocarbons in air or

• Insights from Quantum Chemical Computations into the Mechanism of C-H Activation at Mn^III Catalytic Centres in Microporous Solids

• Bifunctional Single-site Microporous Catalysts: A Solvent-free Synthesis of Caprolactam, the Precursor of Nylon 6

• Single-site Metal Cluster Catalysts Supported on a Microporous Host: Reactive Environments Influence the Structure of Catalysts

• References