Nanocatalysis

Foreword vii
Graham Hutchings
Preface ix
List of Contributors xiii
1 INTRODUCTION TO NANOCATALYSIS 1
Vivek Polshettiwar and Tewodros Asefa
2 NANOCATALYSTS FOR THE HECK COUPLING REACTIONS 11
T. Asefa, A. V. Biradar, S. Das, K. K. Sharma, and R.Silva
3 NANOCATALYSTS FOR THE SUZUKI COUPLING REACTIONS 51
Liane M. Rossi, Natalia J. S. Costa, Jones Limberger, andAdriano L. Monteiro
4 SONOGASHIRA REACTIONS USING NANOCATALYSTS 89
Rafael Chinchilla and Carmen N´ajera
5 NANOCATALYSTS FOR HIYAMA, STILLE, KUMADA, AND NEGISHIC-C COUPLING REACTIONS 133
Abhinandan Banerjee and Robert W. J. Scott
6 ARYL CARBON-HETEROATOM COUPLING REACTIONS USINGNANOMETAL CATALYST 189
Brindaban C. Ranu, Debasree Saha, Debasish Kundu, and NirmalyaMukherjee
7 NANOSTRUCTURED CATALYSTS FOR THE ALDOL, KNOEVENAGEL, AND HENRYREACTIONS 221
T. Asefa, A. V. Biradar, S. Das, and R. Silva
8 NANOCATALYSTS FOR REARRANGEMENT REACTIONS 251
Joaqu´yn Garc´ya-A´lvarez, Sergio E.Garc´ya-Garrido, and Victorio Cadierno
9 OXIDATION OF ALCOHOLS USING NANOCATALYSTS 287
Takato Mitsudome and Kiyotomi Kaneda
10 TUNING THE MORPHOLOGY OF METAL OXIDES FOR CATALYTICAPPLICATIONS 333
Yong Li and Wenjie Shen
11 NANOCATALYSTS FOR HYDROGENATION REACTIONS 405
Radha Narayanan
12 HYDROGENOLYSIS REACTIONS USING NANOCATALYSTS 443
Aziz Fihri and Vivek Polshettiwar
13 NANOMATERIAL-BASED PHOTOCATALYSTS 469
Biswajit Mishra and Deepa Khushalani
14 NANOCATALYSTS FOR WATER SPLITTING 495
Xu Zong, Gaoqing Lu, and Lianzhou Wang
15 PROPERTIES OF NANOCATALYTIC MATERIALS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTIONFROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES 561
Zhong He and Xianqin Wang
16 NANOCATALYSTS FOR BIOFUELS 595
Vitaliy Budarin, Peter S. Shuttleworth, Brigid Lanigan, andJames H. Clark
17 NANOMATERIAL-BASED BIOCATALYST 615
Jin Hyung Lee, Soo Youn Lee, Zhi-Kang Xu, and Jeong HoChang
18 ROLE OF NANOCATALYSIS IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY 643
Anirban Ghosh, K. S. Nagabhushana, Debabrata Rautaray, and RajivKumar
19 NANOCATALYSIS: ACTIVATION OF SMALL MOLECULES AND CONVERSIONINTO USEFUL FEEDSTOCK 679
Suresh Babu Kalidindi and Balaji R. Jagirdar
Index 713