Combinatorial Catalysis and High Throughput Catalyst Design and Testing

Section 1 - Lectures.- Computer Modelling of Catalysts and Catalysis.- Quality Principles for Catalyst Testing During Process Development.- In Situ Investigations of Catalysts and Catalytic Reaction Mechanisms - Part 1. General Introduction and Applications of In Situ MAS NMR Spectroscopy.- In Situ Investigations of Catalysts and Catalytic Reaction Mechanisms - Part 2. In situ laser Raman, FTIR spectroscopies, environmental HREM techniques.- Catalyst Deactivation.- Modelling Complex Kinetic Systems - Part 1. Steady-State and Transient-State.- Modelling Complex Kinetic Systems - Part 2. Hydrocarbon Transformation over Zeolites.- Catalytic Reaction and Reactor Engineering.- Catalytic Reactor Engineering - Novel Concepts in Production and in Catalyst Testing.- Design of catalysts and Catalyst libraries. Computational Techniques in High Throughput Experimentation for Catalysis.- Scale-Up of Catalytic Processes.- Laboratory Reactors for Catalytic Gas-Solid Reactions.- Section 2 - Communications.- Ionic Liquids - The Combinatorial Challenge.- An Evolutionary Approach in Combinatorial Catalysis for Selection and Optimisation of Catalysts.- Design and Testing Catalysts Prepared by Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis.- Mechanistic Study of Propylbenzenes Transformations Over Zeolite Catalysts.- Potential of Gas Sensor System for High Throughput Screening of Combinatorial Catalysts.- MO and MM Study of Homogeneous Propylene Polymerization with a Zirconocene Catalyst.- Critical Influence of the Amorphous Silica-to-Cristobalite Phase Transition on the Performance of Mn/Na2WO4/SiO2 Catalysts for the Oxidative Coupling of Methane.- FTIR Imaging for Chemically Sensitive, High Throughput Analysis of Combinatorial Libraries.- Hydrocracking on BifunctionalZeolites: an Integrated Approach.- Aging and Coke Depositing on Nanometer ZSM-5 Zeolite.- Transformation of Propane Over HZSM-5 Catalyst.- Section 3 - Workshop.- A Catalyst is a Resilient Self-Assembly in Space and Time.- Combinatorial Catalysis and High Throughput Catalyst Testing: Conclusions of the Workshop on "High Throughput Catalytic Testing: Its Challenges".- Combinatorial Catalysis and High Throughput Catalyst Testing: Conclusions of the Nato Advanced Study Institute.- Participants.- Author Index.