Topic: Catalysis and Green Materials

One of the major challenges facing the chemical community at the start of the 21st century is the need to develop cleaner, lower energy, more environmentally-friendly routes to bulk and speciality chemicals.  The "Catalysis and Green Materials" symposium focussed on this area and showcased the chemistry underpinning a wide cross section of modern catalytic and green processes.  Particular emphasis was placed on recent developments in both "hard" and "soft" materials that will revolutionise this area.  Contributions in fields including the preparation and development of catalytic systems, the development of novel catalytic supports, nanoscale materials for catalysis, green alternatives to current processes, materials for environmental remediation and the in-situ characterisation of working systems were strongly encouraged.

Session: Catalysis and Green Materials (i) - Wednesday 4 July (am)

Keynote
John Evans
University of Southampton, UK

Microfabricated reactor based in situ cells for studies of catalysts by X-ray absorption and Raman spectroscopy under reaction conditions
Enhong Cao, Gopinathan Sankar, Steve Firth, Paul F McMillan and Asterios Gavriilidis*
University College London, UK

Mild synthetic routes to complex metal oxides with control of crystal chemistry and crystal form
Richard I Walton*
University of Warwick, UK

The adsorption of CO with Pd clusters on CeO2-x ultrathin films
E L Wilson, Q Chen*, W A Brown and G Thornton
University College London, UK

Direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from H2and O2 using supported Au-Pd catalysts
Adrian Thomas*, Jennifer Edwards, Benjamin Solsona, Graham Hutchings, Albert Carley and Phil Landon
Cardiff University, UK

Towards nitrogen analogues of Mars-van Krevelen processes?
J S J Hargreaves*, D Mckay and X Sun
University of Glasgow, UK

Session: Catalysis and Green Materials (ii) - Wednesday 4 July (pm)

Keynote: Palladium, platinum, and gold nanoparticles stabilized by organic polymers
Shu Kobayashi
University of Tokyo, Japan

New insights into the enantioselectivity of trans-ruthenium(II) (diphosphine)(diamine) catalysed asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones.  A computational study
Devis Di Tommaso*, Samuel A French and C Richard A Catlow
The Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK

Structural selectivity by molecular interaction in microporous aluminophosphates synthesis
M G O'Brien, A M Beale, C R A Catlow* and B M Weckhuysen
The Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK

Starbons®: versatile mesoporous carbonaceous materials for catalysis
K Atkison, V Budarin, J H Clark, R Luque* and D J Macquarrie
University of York, UK

(Tea break)

Session Chair
Russell Morris
University of St Andrews, UK

Organic polymers for hydrogen storage: design, synthesis and simulation
Colin Wood, Tan Bien, Abbie Trewin, Jun-Young Lee, Darren Bradshaw, Matthew Rosseinsky, Yaroslav Khimyak, Ev Stoeckel, Ralph Kirk and Andrew Cooper*
University of Liverpool, UK

Formation of heteroatom active sites in zeolites by hydrolysis and inversion
Judy To*, Alexey A Sokol, Samuel A French, Paul Sherwood, Huub J J van Dam and C Richard A Catlow
The Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK

The highly flexible nanoporous metalocarboxylates MIL-88: a new class of selective adsorbants?
Christian Serre*, Caroline Mellot-Draznieks, Suzy Surblé, Yaroslav Filinchuk, Nathalie Audebrand and Gérard Férey
Université de Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, France

Nature of active cobalt sites in cobalt substituted aluminophosphates catalysts by in situ combined UV-VIS/XAFS/XRD technique
Hong K D Ngyuen, Gopinathan Sankar* and C Richard A Catlow
The Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK