Direct oxidation of methane to methanol (DOMTM) is attractive for the increasing industrial demand of feedstock. In this review, the latest advances in heterogeneous catalysis and plasma catalysis for DOMTM are summarized, with the aim to pinpoint th...
Organic–inorganic hybrid polyoxometalate (POM) compounds are a subset of materials with unique structures and physical/chemical properties. The combination of metal-organic coordination complexes with classical POMs not only provides a powerful way...
This paper mainly focuses on the application of nanostructured MoO3 materials in both energy and environmental catalysis fields. MoO3 has wide tunability in bandgap, a unique semiconducting structure, and multiple valence states. Due to the natural a...
The use of titania-based composite materials in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis has a long and rich history. Hybrid structures combining titania nanoparticles with clay minerals have been extensively investigated for nearly fo...
In recent years, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have received increasing attention as selective oxidation catalysts and supports for their construction. In this short review paper, we survey recent findings concerning use of MOFs in heterogeneous li...
Due to the increasing emission of carbon dioxide (CO2), greenhouse effects are becoming more and more severe, causing global climate change. The conversion and utilization of CO2 is one of the possible solutions to reduce CO2 concentrations. This can...
Diphosphorous (P2) side-on coordinated to a dicobalt (Co–Co) moiety was described 45 years ago. This discovery had several links to actual problems of homogeneous molecular catalysis. The new type of organometallic complexes induced several ing...
Cocktail-type catalysis represents a significant shift in the understanding of catalytic processes, recognizing that multiple interconverting species—such as metal complexes, clusters, and nanoparticles—can coexist and cooperate within a...
The sustainability of the chemical industry requires replacing oil and natural gas with alternative raw materials and reducing CO2 emissions from processes and utilities. In the particular case of petrochemicals, decarbonization is not easy, since ca...
H2 has aroused significant attention as an unpolluted and renewable energy carrier. However, the efficient storage and controllable release of H2 are urgent to be addressed. Through the hydrogenation of CO2 (bicarbonate) to produce formic acid (forma...
The use of enzymes, organo-catalysts or transition metal catalysts, as opposed to the employment of stoichiometric quantities of other traditional promoters of different organic synthetic processes (like, inorganic/organic bases, Brønsted acid...
A large number of methodologies for fabrication of 1D carbon nanomaterials have been developed in the past few years and are extensively described in the literature. However, for many applications, and in particular in catalysis, a translation of the...
The Special Issue “Zeolite Catalysis” published in the online journal Catalysts was recently successfully completed.[...]
Many years ago, twelve principles were defined for carrying out chemical reactions and processes from a green chemistry perspective. It is everyone’s endeavor to take these points into account as far as possible when developing new processes or...
Artificially designed heterostructures formed by close conjunctions of plasmonic metal nanoparticles (PNPs) and non-plasmonic (2D) lamellar nanostructures are receiving extensive interest. The synergistic interactions of the nanounits induce the mani...
In sharp contrast with acid-, photo-, and oxidation-catalysis by polyoxometalates, base catalysis by polyoxometalates has scarcely been investigated. The use of polyoxometalates as base catalysts have very recently received much attention and has bee...
The development and application of new organoboron reagents as Lewis acids in synthesis and metal-free catalysis have dramatically expanded over the past 20 years. In this context, we will show the recent uses of the simple and relatively weak Lewis...
Enzyme catalysis is a very active research area in organic chemistry, because biocatalysts are compatible with and can be adjusted to many reaction conditions, as well as substrates. Their integration in multicomponent reactions (MCRs) allows for sim...
Graphene, the reincarnation of a surface, offers new opportunities in catalytic applications, not only because of its peculiar electronic structure, but also because of the ease of modulating it. A vast number of proposals have been made to support t...
Micropollutants (MPs), which include both natural and manmade substances, are becoming more prevalent in aquatic habitats as a result of the insufficient removal of these compounds in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Advanced remediation techniqu...
Mesoporous silica molecular sieves are a kind of unique catalyst support due to their large pore size and high surface area. Several methods have been developed to immobilize heteropolyacids (HPAs) inside the channels of these mesoporous silicas. The...
The synthesis of magnetically separable quasi-homogeneous base catalyst and heterogeneous base catalyst is described. The quasi-homogeneous catalyst is achieved by supporting silane monomers functionalized with different amine groups directly on the...
The functionalization of alkenes is one of the most important conversions in synthetic chemistry to prepare numerous fine chemicals. Typical procedures, such as hydrosilylation and hydroformylation, are traditionally catalyzed using homogeneous noble...
Machine learning has proven to be a powerful technique during the past decades. Artificial neural network (ANN), as one of the most popular machine learning algorithms, has been widely applied to various areas. However, their applications for catalys...
Symmetry plays a fundamental role in chiral recognition and enantioselective catalysis. Porphyrins possess a number of structural features that make them attractive for the stereocontrol of chiral recognition and metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions....
Substituted pyrimidines exhibit a wide range of biological activities, including antiviral, anticancer, antihistaminic, antimicrobial, antitubercular, and anti-inflammatory properties, driving continuous interest in developing novel synthetic routes....
Following biennial meetings held since 1968, the Iberoamerican Federation of Catalysis Societies (FISoCat), the Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ) and the University of Coimbra jointly organized the XXVI Iberoamerican Congress on Catalysis (CICat 2018...
Catalysis fulfills the promise that high-yielding chemical transformations will require little energy and produce no toxic waste. This message is carried by the study of the evolution of molecular catalysis of some of the most important reactions in...
In this Review, we consider all the publications since the beginning of the century that describe tandem reactions resulting in the formation of five-membered aromatic nitrogen heterocycles (thiazole, imidazole, indole, tetrazole, triazole, and isoxa...
Frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) catalysts have attracted much recent interest because of their exceptional ability to activate small molecules in homogeneous catalysis. In the past ten years, this unique catalysis concept has been extended to heterogeneo...
MXene materials have found emerging applications as catalysts for chemical reactions due to their intriguing physical and chemical applications. In particular, their broad light response and strong photothermal conversion capabilities are likely to r...
This review article contains a reminder of the fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis and a description of the main domains of heterogeneous catalysis and main families of metal oxide catalysts, which cover acid-base reactions, selective partial oxi...
We first explore negative-ion formation in fullerenes C44 to C136 through low-energy electron elastic scattering total cross sections calculations using our Regge-pole methodology. Then, the formed negative ions C44ˉ to C136ˉ are used to investigate...
The use of hydrogen peroxide (produced in situ or ex situ) as the main agent in oxidative processes of environmental pollutant removal is widely studied. The degradation of water pollutants, such as dyes, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, petroleum derivat...
It is acknowledged that the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials (NMs) have an impact on their toxicity and, eventually, their pathogenicity. These properties may include the NMs’ surface chemical composition, size, shape, surface charge, surf...
The term catalysis was introduced in the mid-19th century by the Swedish scientist Jöns Jakob Berzelius, ushering in the era of accelerated chemical reactions [...]
This review updates the field of enantioselective copper-catalysed domino reactions promoted by chiral green copper catalysts, covering the literature since 2017. These complexes are derived from a diversity of chiral ligands, including mostly bisoxa...
In recent years, Ga-based liquid metals have emerged as a prominent research focus in catalysis, owing to their unique properties, including fluidity, low melting point, high thermal and electrical conductivity, and tunable surface characteristics. T...
Rhodium is one of the most used metals in catalysis both in laboratory reactions and industrial processes. Despite the extensive exploration on “classical” ligands carried out during the past decades in the field of rhodium-catalyzed reactions, such...
Heterogeneous catalytic systems based on the use of stimuli-responsive materials can be switched from an “on” active state to an “off” inactive state, which contributes to endowing the catalysts with unique functional properti...
Inspired by multimetallic assemblies and their role in enzyme catalysis, chemists have developed a plethora of heterobimetallic complexes for application in homogeneous catalysis. Starting with small heterobimetallic complexes with σ-donating a...
The subject of catalysis by coinage metals (copper, silver, and gold) comes up increasingly day-by-day. This Special Issue aims to cover the numerous aspects of the use of these metals as catalysts for several reactions. It deals with synthesis and c...
Mixed oxides were synthesized by co-precipitation of a Cu source in combination with Al, Fe or Mn corresponding salts as precursors. The materials were calcined at 600 and 1000 °C in order to crystallize the phases and to mimic the reaction condi...
The formation of valuable chiral skeletons through asymmetric gold catalysis has made considerable progress due to the unrivaled affinity of gold complexes with multiple carbon–carbon bonds. The renaissance of chiral ligands in recent decades h...
Net Zero has the aim of achieving equality between the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere. There is widespread acceptance that for Net Zero to be achievable, chemistry, and hence catalysis, must pla...
A deep understanding of surface catalysis recombination characteristics is significant for accurately predicting the aeroheating between hypersonic non-equilibrium flow and thermal protection materials, while a de-coupling sensitivity analysis of var...
The hammerhead ribozyme was first considered as a metalloenzyme despite persistent inconsistencies between structural and functional data. In the last decade, metal ions were confirmed as catalysts in self-splicing ribozymes but displaced by nucleoba...
Recent research in the field of oil and gas geochemistry has focused on the catalytic role of minerals in geological history. Thermal simulation experiments are considered a valuable means of studying the formation and transformation of hydrocarbons....
The synthesis, reactivity, and potential of well-defined dinuclear gold complexes as precursors for dual-gold catalysis is explored. Using the preorganizing abilities of well-known wide bite angle diphosphine ligands, DBFPhos and DPEPhos, dinuclear A...
The treatment of organic pollutants in wastewater is becoming a great challenge for social development. Herein, a novel contact-piezoelectric bi-catalysis of a ZnO@ PVDF composite membrane was prepared by electrospinning technology. The obtained ZnO@...
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