Selectivity in catalysis - an overview; stereoselectivity - the ultimate challenge in catalysis; asymmetric catalytic hydrogenation of 2-arylacrylic acids as a low-cost route to pharmaceutical products; chiral rhodium (II) carboxamides - remarkably effective catalysts for enantioselective metal carbene transformations; discrete chiral rhodium phosphine complexes as catalysts for asymmetric hydrosilation of ketones; catalytic asymmetric heck reaction; clusters, alloys, and poisoning; platinum, tin, alumina catalysts - comparison of alkane dehydrocyclization activity and characterization data; alkyne coordination, dimerization, and scission on a tungsten - triiridiuim cluster core - reaction modeling studies related to cluster-derived butane hydrogenolysis catalysts; platinum - tin and gold - tin bimetallic particles prepared from solvated metal atoms - structure and catalysis; mechanism and selectivity in catalytic olefin polymerization; effect of a model hydrogenation on a catalytic palladium membrane; vanadium migration between model components of fluid cracking catalysts - SEM-EDX studies; shape-selective catalysis with zeolites and molecular sieves; reactions of meta-diisopropylbenzene on acid molecular sieves; methyl tert butyl ether and ethyl tert butyl ether - synthesis over triflic acid modified Y-zeolite; design of layered phosphate hosts containing multiply bonded bimetallic guest species; nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of anisotropic solid-state chemical reactions; homogeneous adsorption of benzene on naX and naY zeolites; reaction pathway analysis - global molecular and mechanistic perspectives; preparation, characterization, and catalysis of a modified ZSM-5 zeolite; effect of catalyst preparation on the aromatization of n-hexane over Pt clusters supported on hydrotalcite; reactions of ethylene over ruY zeolite; activation of C-H, C-C, and C-O bonds of oxygenates on rh(III); continuous catalytic conversion of acetylene to higher hydrocarbons over a metal modified shape selective zeolite catalyst; characterization of ruCl, impregnated NaY zeolite; non-flory product distributions in fischer-tropsch synthesis catalyzed by ruthenium, cobalt, and iron.
