Because of their extensive use as chemical building blocks, light olefins, such as propylene
(propene) and ethylene (ethene), are among the most important types of compounds in the …

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy undoubtedly represents one of the most important tools in
catalysis research. In this review, recent catalytic applications of the most popular IR …

Selectivity—the production of one molecule out of many other thermodynamically feasible
product molecules—is the key concept in developing clean processes that do not produce …

Due to the depletion of petroleum and the recent shale gas revolution, the dropping of the
price for light alkanes makes alkanes an attractive feedstock for the production of light …

Infrared− visible sum frequency generation (SFG) has been used to monitor the surface
vibrational spectrum in situ during ethylene hydrogenation on Pt (111). Measurements were …

Promoters of metal catalysts play an essential role in the hydrogenation of unsaturated
bonds, such as in carbonylic compounds. This promotion is a key to a high selectivity to …

DFT-GGA periodic slab calculations were used to examine the chemisorption,
hydrogenation, and dehydrogenation of ethylene on pseudomorphic monolayers of Pd (111) …

The surface science of heterogeneous metal catalysis uses model systems ranging from
single crystals to monodispersed nanoparticles in the 1–10 nm range. Molecular studies …

This paper reviews aspects of nonlinear optical spectroscopy of interfaces. The emphasis is
put on second-order nonlinear optical techniques, such as sum-frequency generation (SFG) …

During the past decade vibrational sum frequency generation as a method to study
interfaces has matured and can now be applied more routinely to systems of increasing …