The chemical industry relies on catalytic processes, which involve mainly heterogeneous
catalysts because they offer many advantages over their homogeneous counterparts such …

Many industrial catalysts contain isolated metal sites on the surface of oxide supports.
Although such catalysts have been used in a broad range of processes for more than 40 …

The broad challenges of energy and environment have become a main focus of research
efforts to develop more active and selective catalytic systems for key chemical …

Despite widespread use of yttrium halide complexes as powerful Lewis acids in catalysis, no
strategies have yet been developed to prepare well-defined heterogeneous systems …

Engineering heterogeneous catalysts with molecular precision is an ongoing challenge to
access materials with predictable properties that can be optimized using quantitative …

Ordered periodic mesoporous organosilicas have been widely applied in
adsorption/separation/sensor technologies and the fields of biomedicine/biotechnology as …

Well-defined organometallics supported on high surface area oxides are promising
heterogeneous catalysts. An important design factor in these materials is how the metal …

Immobilized coordination compounds of Lewis acidic metals are powerful catalytic
components of systems for the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides that do not require …

The homoleptic pyrazolate complexes [CeIII4 (Me2pz) 12] and [CeIV (Me2pz) 4] 2
quantitatively insert CO2 to give [CeIII4 (Me2pz⋅ CO2) 12] and [CeIV (Me2pz⋅ CO2) 4] …

Grafting molecular precursors on partially dehydroxylated silica followed by a thermal
treatment yields silica-supported M (III) sites for a broad range of metals. They display …