Catalysis of Organic Reactions, Vol. 82 Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Contributors
	The Raney - Nickel	1
	Selecting Between Batch Slurry and Continuous Fixed bed Hydrogenation	35
	Safety and Economics Considerations in the Design of an Industrial Hydrogenation Facility	51
	Effect of Carbon Activation on Deposition of Pd and Pt	63
	The Flexibility of the Chemical and Physical Properties of Metalyst for the Optimal Performance of Fixed Bed Reactions on Activated Base Metal Surfaces	75
	Advanced Fixed-Bed Hydrogenation of Unsaturated Fatty Acids	91
	Modeling of Propylene Oxidation on Hydrophobic Catalyst in a Slurry and a Trickle Bed Reactor	103
	The Safe Handling of Activated Nickel Catalysts: Heat-Induced Interactions Between the Catalyst, Ethyl Acetate, and Water	109
	The Effect of Surface Area on the Partial Oxidation of n-Butane over VPO Catalysts	117
	Reactivity of B/P/O-Based Heterogeneous Catalysts in Gas-Phase o-Alkylation of Diphenols with Methanol	123
	Production of Aromatics Catalyzed by Commercial Sulfated Zirconia Solid Acids	135
	High Octane Fuel Ethers from Alkanol/Crude Acetone Streams via Inorganic Solid Acid Catalysis	145
	Vapour Phase Synthesis of Indole and Its Derivatives	157
	Carbons as Catalysts	169
	New Coupling and Isomerization Reactions Catalyzed by a Protic Superacid	181
	Alkylation of Phenol with Tert-Butyl Alcohol Catalyzed by Zeolite HY Catalyst	193
	Lithium Hydroxide Modified Sponge Catalysts for Control of Primary Amine Selectivity in Nitrile Hydrogenations	201
	Reactivity and Surface Analysis Studies on the Deactivation of Raney Nickel During Adiponitrile Hydrogenation	229
	Catalytic Hydrogenation of Benzonitrile over Raney Nickel: Influence of Reaction Parameters on Reaction Rates and Selectivities	241
	Catalytic Hydrogenation of Lignin Aromatics Using Ru-Arene Complexes	255
	Reaction Pathways in the Catalytic Reductive N-Methylation of Polyamines	267
	Reductive Alkylation of 2-Methylglutaronitrile with Palladium Catalysts	279
	The Synthesis of Amines by Catalytic Hydrogenation of Nitro Compounds	293
	Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde on Ru-MCM and Ru-beta Catalysts	301
	Novel Preparation of 5[alpha]-Dihydroethisterone from Androst-4-ene-3,17-dione	307
	Selective Epoxidation of Allylic Alcohols with Amine-Modified Titania-Silica Aerogels	315
	Mononuclear Heterogeneous Catalysts for the Epoxidation of Olefins by Aqueous H[subscript 2]O[subscript 2]	325
	Common Features and Differences in the Heterogeneously-Catalysed Conversion of Substituted Methyl Aromatics to Aromatic Aldehydes and Nitriles	337
	Platinum-Catalyzed Oxidation on N-Alkyl Glyphosates: A New Glyphosate-Forming Reaction	349
	Betaine Synthesis via the Aqueous Oxidation of Choline Salts	361
	Synthesis of Methylmaleic Anhydride (Citraconic Anhydride) by Heterogeneous Selective Oxidation of Isoprene with V/Ti/O Catalysts	371
	Homogeneous Catalysis for Fine Chemicals: The Heck Reaction as a Clean Alternative for Friedel-Crafts Chemistry	379
	In Situ Generation of Formaldehyde for Environmentally Benign Chemical Synthesis	391
	Copper-Based Chromium-Free Hydrogenation Catalysts	403
	Highly Effective Catalytic Enantioselective Deprotonation of meso-Epoxides with Isopinocampheyl Based Chiral Lithium Amides	415
	Diastereoselective Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation of Chiral Aromatic N-heterocyclic Compounds	425
	Immobilized Chiral Rhodium Complexes on Silicas Show Enhanced Enantioselectivity in Hydrogenation of Enamide Esters	439
	Heterogeneous Synthesis of Flavanone over MgO	451
	Pd-catalyzed Coupling Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide	459
	Chiral Modifiers for Supported Metals	465
	Kinetic Study on Stereoselectivity of Catalyzed Cycloadditions of Cyclopentadiene to Pentenoate	471
	Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids over Palladium Modified by a Substituted Binaphthylene	477
	Enantioselective Catalytic Hydrogenation of (6: 7,8: 9)-Dibenzobicyclo[3, 2, 2]nona-6, 8-dien-2-one on Ru-Containing Zeolites	483
	Enantioselective Hydrogenation of [alpha]-Ketoesters over a Pt/Al[subscript 2]O[subscript 3] Catalyst: Effect of Steric Constraints on the Enantioselection	489
	Anchored Homogeneous Catalysts	497
	Immobilization of Palladium Catalysts for Trost-Tsuji C-C and C-N Bond Formation: Which Method?	509
	Two-Phase Hydroaminomethylation of Olefins with Ammonia	521
	Novel Noble-Metal-Based Catalysts for Liquid-phase Acetone Condensation	533
	Rhodium Catalyzed Methanol Carbonylation: New Low Water Technology	545
	Anchored Homogeneous Catalyst Precursors	557
	Fibre-Based Catalysts: Applications as Heterogeneous and Supported Homogeneous Catalysts for the Fine Chemicals Industry	563
	Tethering Technology: Anchored Homogeneous Catalysts	573
	The Effect of Rare-Earth Elements on the Catalytic and Adsorptive Activity of Supported Transition Metals	583
	Synthesis and Study of Amino Acid-Based Ligands for Late Transition Metal Complexation	589
	DBU as Nucleophilic Catalyst in the Baylis Hillman Reaction	595
	Bifunctional Copper Catalysts, Part III: Carvenone Synthesis Starting from Limonene Oxide	601
	Active Sites on Well-Characterized Pt/SiO[subscript 2] Determined by (-)-Apopinene Deuteriumation, Cyclohexene Hydrogenation, and CS[subscript 2] Titration	609
	Application of Simmons-Smith Reagents to Epoxidation and Aziridination	617
	Index	623