Preface ; Part I: General Aspects ; 1. Design of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Fuels and Chemicals Processing: An ; Overview ; Juan J. Bravo-Suarez, Raghunath V. Chaudhari, and Bala Subramaniam ; Part II: Computer-Aided Design ; 2. Computational Studies of Structure and Catalytic Activity of Vanadia for ; Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation ; Lei Cheng and Larry A. Curtiss ; 3. Molecular Simulation of Carbon Capture in a Series of Isoreticular Zeolitic ; Imidazolate Materials ; Yao Houndonougbo ; Part III: Spectroscopic Characterization ; 4. Utilizing Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Study of ; Interfacial Phenomena: Probing Interactions on an Alumina Surface ; Eric V. Formo, Zili Wu, Shannon M. Mahurin, and Sheng Dai ; Part IV: Kinetics-Aided Design ; 5. Interactions of Sulfur Oxides with Diesel Oxidation Catalysts (DOCs) ; Hom N. Sharma, Steven L. Suib, and Ashish B. Mhadeshwar ; Part V: Applications ; Hydrodesulfurization ; 6. Hydrodesulfurization Studies on SBA-16 Supported Molybdenum ; Hydrotreating Catalysts ; Kapil Soni, Thallada Bhaskar, Manoj Kumar, Kamaraju Seetha Rama Rao, and ; Gudimella Murali Dhar ; Epoxidation ; 7. Characterization and Catalytic activity of Cu-TUD-1 for Styrene ; Epoxidation ; Muthusamy Poomalai Pachamuthu, Anand Ramanathan, Kannan Santhi, and ; Rajamanickam Maheswari ; 8. Rapid Room Temperature Synthesis of Ce-MCM-48: An Active Catalyst ; for trans-Stilbene Epoxidation with tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide ; Anand Ramanathan, Rajamanickam Maheswari, Prem S. Thapa, and ; Bala Subramaniam ; Syngas Conversion ; 9. Rhodium Nanoparticles Confined in Ordered Mesoporous Carbon: ; Microscopic Characterization and Catalytic Application for Synthesis Gas ; Conversion to Ethanol ; Song-Hai Chai, Jane Y. Howe, Michelle Kidder, Xiqing Wang, Viviane Schwartz, ; Steven H. Overbury, Sheng Dai, and De-en Jiang ; Dehydrogenation ; 10. Carbon-Mediated Catalysis: Oxidative Dehydrogenation on Graphitic ; Carbon ; Viviane Schwartz, Steven H. Overbury, and Chengdu Liang ; Emerging Areas ? Renewables Conversion ; 11. Supported Hybrid Enzyme-Organocatalysts for Upgrading the Carbon ; Content of Alcohols ; Kapil Kandel, Stacey M. Althaus, Marek Pruski, and Igor I. Slowing ; 12. Activity and Selectivity of Base Promoted Mono and Bimetallic Catalysts ; for Hydrogenolysis of Xylitol and Sorbitol ; Xin Jin, Bala Subramaniam, and Raghunath V. Chaudhari ; 13. The Effect of Calcination Temperature on the Properties and ; Hydrodeoxygenation Activity of Ni2P Catalysts Prepared Using Citric ; Acid ; Victoria M. L. Whiffen and Kevin J. Smith ; 14. Hydrocarbon Production from Carboxylic Acids via Catalytic ; Deoxygenation: Required Catalytic Properties ; Zhong He and Xianqin Wang ; Editors' Biographies ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index
