Surface Chemistry and Catalysis Book

Chapter 1.	Teyrnged I Meirion Wya Roberts
	References	4
Chapter 2.	Technique and Progress in Surface and Solid-State Science
1.	Introduction	5
2.	Overlapping adventure in microscopy: from the imaging of atoms to tomographic analysis	6
3.	The emergence of photoelectron spectroscopy and its impact in surface science	8
4.	The electron microscope and advances in surface and solidstate chemistry	12
5.	Personal reminiscences	21
6.	References	24
Chapter 3.	50 Years in Vibrational Spectroscopy at the Gas/Solid Interface
1.	Introduction	27
2.	Early days in surface vibrational spectroscopy	28
3.	Infrared spectra of chemisorbed molecules: early Texaco and Cambridge contributions	31
4.	Alkenes chemisorbed on silica-supported metal catalysts: the Cambridge/East Anglia contributions	32
5.	Contributions from surface science	37
6.	The quest for spectral understanding renewed	42
7.	Conclusions	50
8.	References	52
Chapter 4.	High-Pressure Co Dissociation and Co Oxidation Studies on Platinum Single Crystal Surfaces Using Sum Frequency Generation Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy
1.	Introduction	56
2.	Experimental	57
3.	Results	60
4.	Discussion	71
5.	Conclusions	76
6.	Acknowledgements	77
7.	References	77
Chapter 5.	Modeling Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions
1.	Introduction	79
2.	Theory	80
3.	CH[subscript x] on Ru(0001)	85
4.	NO on Rh(111)	96
5.	Conclusions	100
6.	Acknowledgements	101
7.	References	101
Chapter 6.	Model Systems for Heterogeneous Catalysis: Quo Vadis Surface Science?
1.	Introduction	103
2.	Oxide surfaces	105
3.	Metal aggregates on oxide surfaces: morphology, growth and electronic structure	111
4.	Magnetic properties	121
5.	Adsorption and reaction	122
6.	Photochemistry on metal aggregates	136
7.	Synopsis	140
8.	Acknowledgements	141
9.	References	141
Chapter 7.	Surface Chemistry of Model Oxide-Supported Metal Catalysts: an Overview of Gold on Titania
1.	Introduction	148
2.	Experimental	152
3.	Results and discussion	154
4.	Conclusions	185
5.	Acknowledgements	185
6.	References	185
Chapter 8.	Nanoscale Catalysis by Gold
1.	Introduction	191
2.	Gold catalysis	193
3.	Morphology and electronic structure	196
4.	Summary	204
5.	References	204
Chapter 9.	Catalysis from Art to Science
1.	Introduction	208
2.	Catalysis over strong acids	211
3.	Metal assisted acid catalysis; mechanistic commonalities of acid and metal catalyzed reactions	216
4.	Adsorption and catalysis on well defined metal surfaces	219
5.	Adsorption and catalysis by alloys; ensemble and ligand effect	224
6.	Adsorption and catalysis on zeolite based systems	228
7.	Conclusions	234
8.	References	234
Chapter 10.	Enantioselective Reactions Using Modified Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
1.	Introduction	242
2.	Design approach for asymmetric heterogeneous catalysts	243
3.	Enantioselective dehydration of butan-2-ol using zeolite y modified with chiral dithiane oxides--a proof of concept study	245
4.	Catalytic heterogeneous asymmetric aziridination of alkenes using Cu-exchanged zeolite y and Al-MCM-41	265
5.	Asymmetric epoxidation using modified Mn-exchanged materials	271
6.	Concluding comments	272
7.	References	273
Chapter 11.	Molecular Description of Transition Metal Oxide Catalysts
1.	Introduction	275
2.	Bulk transition metal oxides and oxysalts	276
3.	The role of different surface oxygen species	285
4.	Transition metal ions deposited at oxide supports	287
5.	References	291
Chapter 12.	Selectivity in Metal-Catalysed Hydrogenation
1.	Introduction	296
2.	Selectivity and the electronic nature of the catalyst surface	298
3.	Selectivity and defective metallic structure	315
4.	Selectivity and molecular congestion at the active site	318
5.	Special factors affecting selectivity in alkyne hydrogenations	322
6.	Enantioselectivity	328
7.	In conclusion	344
8.	Acknowledgements	345
9.	References	345
Appendix 1.	M.W. Roberts' publications	351
Appendix 2.	M. W. Roberts' students	373
	Index	375