Metal-Catalysis in Industrial Organic Processes [Hardcover]

Catalysis underpins most modern industrial organic processes. It has become an essential tool in creating a 'greener' chemical industry by replacing more traditional stoichiometric reactions, which have high energy consumption and high waste production, with mild processes which increasingly resemble Nature's enzymes.

Metal-Catalysis in Industrial Organic Processes considers the major areas of the field and discusses the logic of using catalysis in industrial processes. The book provides information on oxidation, hydrogenation, carbonylation, C-C bond formation, metathesis and polymerization processes, as well as on the mechanisms involved. In addition two appendices offer a concise treatment of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Numerous exercises referring to problems of catalytic processes, and research perspectives complete the book.

This definitive reference source, written by practising experts in the field, provides detailed and up-to-date information on key aspects of metal catalysis.

Introduction: Catalysis in the Chemical Industry.- Formation of C-O Bonds by Oxidation.- Hydrogenation Reactions.- Syntheses Based on Carbon Monoxide.- Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation.- Metathesis of Olefins.- Polymerization Reactions.- Basic Organometallic Chemistry Related to Catalytic Cycles.- Some Basic Aspects of Surface Science Related to Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reactions.

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Metal-catalysis in industrial organic processes

G Paolo Chiusoli and Peter Maitlis

Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry 2006 | 328pp ISBN 0854048626

Reviewed by Phil Barnes

This volume is a most welcome addition to the literature on the vitally important area of industrial catalysis by metals. It is intended to be an 'advalÃ.