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Design And Applications Of Single-site Heterogeneous Catalysts: Contributions To Green Chemistry, Clean Technology And Sustainability (Hardcover, Catalytic Scien)
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Design And Applications Of Single-site Heterogeneous Catalysts: Contributions To Green Chemistry, Clean Technology And Sustainability (Hardcover, Catalytic Scien)
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For far too long chemists and industrialists have relied on the use
of aggressive reagents such as nitric and sulphuric acids,
permanganates and dichromates to prepare the massive quantities of
both bulk and fine chemicals that are needed for the maintenance of
civilised life - materials such as fuels, fabrics, foodstuffs,
fertilisers and pharmaceuticals. Such aggressive reagents generate
vast quantities of environmentally harmful and often toxic
by-products, including the oxides of nitrogen, of metal oxides and
carbon dioxide.Now, owing to recent advances made in the synthesis
of nanoporous solids, it is feasible to design new solid catalysts
that enable benign, mild oxidants to be used, frequently without
utilising solvents, to manufacture the products that the chemical,
pharmaceutical, agro- and bio-chemical industries require. These
new solid agents are designated single-site heterogeneous catalysts
(SSHCs). Their principal characteristics are that all the active
sites present in the high-area solids are identical in their atomic
environment and hence in their energy of interaction with
reactants, just as in enzymes.Single-site heterogeneous catalysts
now occupy a position of growing importance both academically and
in their potential for commercial exploitation. This text, the only
one devoted to such catalysts, dwells both on principles of design
and on applications, such as the benign synthesis of nylon 6 and
vitamin B3. It equips the reader with unifying insights required
for future catalytic adventures in the quest for sustainability in
the materials used by humankind.Anyone acquainted with the language
of molecules, including undergraduates in the physical and
biological sciences, as well as graduates in engineering and
materials science, should be able to assimilate the principles and
examples presented in this book. Inter alia, it describes how clean
technology and 'green' processes may be carried out in an
environmentally responsible manner.
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