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Catalysts, Volume 6, Issue 2

February 2016 - 14 articles

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Articles (14)

  • Review
  • Open Access
152 Citations
19,673 Views
10 Pages

Enzyme Stability and Activity in Non-Aqueous Reaction Systems: A Mini Review

  • Shihui Wang,
  • Xianghe Meng,
  • Hua Zhou,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Francesco Secundo and
  • Yun Liu

22 February 2016

Enormous interest in biocatalysis in non-aqueous phase has recently been triggered due to the merits of good enantioselectivity, reverse thermodynamic equilibrium, and no water-dependent side reactions. It has been demonstrated that enzyme has high a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,989 Views
16 Pages

19 February 2016

Composites of TiO2 (Hombikat, P25, sol-gel synthesis) and zeolite ZSM-5 (nSi/nAl = 55) with mass fractions from 25/75 to 75/25 were prepared by mechanical mixing, solid-state dispersion and sol-gel synthesis. Characterization of the composites by X-r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,814 Views
18 Pages

18 February 2016

Dialkyl hexane-1,6-dicarbamate was synthesized, for the first time, by a one-pot reaction of 1,6-hexanediamine (HDA), urea, and alcohols, including methanol, ethanol, propanol, and butanol, in a self-designed batch reactor, using zinc-incorporated be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,737 Views
11 Pages

18 February 2016

The O–H bond breaking in H2O molecules on metal surfaces covered with pre-adsorbed oxygen atoms is an important topic in heterogeneous catalysis. The adsorption configurations of H2O and relevant dissociation species on clean and O-pre-adsorbed Fe(10...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,991 Views
10 Pages

Insights to Achieve a Better Control of Silicon-Aluminum Ratio and ZSM-5 Zeolite Crystal Morphology through the Assistance of Biomass

  • Alessandra V. Silva,
  • Leandro S. M. Miranda,
  • Márcio Nele,
  • Benoit Louis and
  • Marcelo M. Pereira

18 February 2016

The present study attempts to provide insights for both the chemical composition (Si/Al) and the crystal morphology of ZSM-5 zeolites while using biomass template compounds in the synthesis. The solution containing biomass-derivative compounds was ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,300 Views
10 Pages

10 February 2016

The development of a new facile method for the acetylation of alcohols and carbohydrate-derived polyols is described. This method relies on the nature of the cationic palladium catalyst, Pd(PhCN)2(OTf)2 which is generated in situ from Pd(PhCN)2Cl2 a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,783 Views
15 Pages

5 February 2016

This work tested two V2O5-WO3/TiO2 catalysts with different vanadium precursors for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of flue gas NO using NH3 at 150–450 °C. While catalyst A was prepared using ammonium metavanadate (NH4VO3) through incipient impre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,426 Views
14 Pages

5 February 2016

A series of Ce1−xCoxO2−y precursors were prepared by homogeneous precipitation using urea as a precipitant. The Co/CeO2 catalysts obtained from the Ce1−xCoxO2−y precursors were used for the steam reforming of ethanol to produce hydrogen. Co ions coul...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
12,532 Views
26 Pages

29 January 2016

This paper presents an overview of heterogeneous partial (amm)oxidation and oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of hydrocarbons. The review has been voluntarily restricted to metal oxide-type catalysts, as the partial oxidation field is very broad and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,632 Views
13 Pages

29 January 2016

A high-throughput (HT) screening platform developed at hte with the application focus on automotive catalysis is described. hte HT units are configured for performing steady-state testing, as well as dynamic tests with fast feed switches, such as lea...

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