Catalysis of Organic Reactions Book

Board of Editors     xxi
Chronology of Organic Reactions Catalysis Society Conferences     xxiii
Preface     xxv
Symposium on Catalysis in Organic Synthesis     1
On the Use of Immobilized Metal Complex Catalysts in Organic Synthesis   Christopher W. Jones   Michael Holbach   John Richardson   William Sommer   Marcus Weck   Kunquan Yu   Xiaolai Zheng     3
Supported Re Catalysts for Metathesis of Functionalized Olefins   Anthony W. Moses   Heather D. Leifeste   Naseem A. Ramsahye   Juergen Eckert   Susannah L. Scott     13
Catalytic Hydrogenation of a Schiff's Base over Pd/Carbon Catalysts: Kinetic Prediction of Impurity Fate and Byproduct Formation   Steve S.Y. Wang   William F. Merkl   Hyei-Jha Chung   Wendel Doubleday   San Kiang     23
Halophosphite Ligands for the Rhodium Catalyzed Low-Pressure Hydroformylation Reaction   Thomas A. Puckette     31
Development of a Monolithic Bioreactor: Tailor-Made Functionalized Carriers   Karen M. de Lathouder   Freek Kapteijn   Jacob A. Moulijn     39
Highly Selective Preparation of trans-4-Aminocyclohexane Carboxylic Acid from cis-Isomer over Raney Nickel Catalyst   SandorGobolos   Zoltan Banka   Zoltan Toth   Janos Szammer   Jozsef L. Margitfalvi     45
Gas-Phase Acetone Condensation over Hydrotalcite-like Catalysts   Francisco Tzompantzi   Jaime S. Valente   Manuel S. Cantu   Ricardo Gomez     55
Gas Phase Trimerization of Isobutene Using Green Catalysts   Angeles Mantilla   Francisco Tzompantzi   Miguel Torres   Ricardo Gomez     61
Synthesis of Methyl Isobutyl Ketone over a Multifunctional Heterogeneous Catalyst: Effect of Metal and Base Components on Selectivity and Activity   Arran S. Canning   Jonathan J. Gamman   S. David Jackson   Strath Urquart     67
The Control of Regio- and Chemo-Selectivity in the Gas-phase, Acid-Catalyzed Methylation of 1,2-Diphenol (Catechol)   Mattia Ardizzi   Nicola Ballarini   Fabrizio Cavani   Luca Dal Pozzo   Luca Maselli   Tiziana Monti   Sara Rovinetti     77
The Environmentally Benign, Liquid-phase Benzoylation of Phenol Catalyzed by H-[beta] Zeolite. An Analysis of the Reaction Scheme   Mattia Ardizzi   Nicola Ballarini   Fabrizio Cavani   Massimo Cimini   Luca Dal Pozzo   Patrizia Mangifesta   Diana Scagliarini      83
Symposium on Catalytic Oxidation     89
Biphasic Catalytic Oxidation of Hydrocarbons Using Immobilized Homogeneous Catalyst in a Microchannel Reactor   Jianli Hu   Guanguang Xia   James F. White   Thomas H. Peterson   Yong Wang     91
Reaction Pathways for Propylene Partial Oxidation on Au/TiO[subscript 2]   Rahul Singh   Steven S. C. Chuang     99
The Transformation of Light Alkanes to Chemicals: Mechanistic Aspects of the Gas-phase Oxidation of n-Pentane to Maleic Anhydride and Phthalic Anhydride   Mirko Bacchini   Nicola Ballarini   Fabrizio Cavani   Carlotta Cortelli   Stefano Cortesi   Carlo Fumagalli   Gianluca Mazzoni   Tiziana Monti   Francesca Pierelli   Ferruccio Trifiro     109
Transition Metal Free Catalytic Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols Under Mild Conditions Using Stable Nitroxyl Free Radicals   Setrak K. Tanielyan   Robert L. Augustine   Clementina Reyes   Nagendranath Mahata   Michael Korell   Oliver Meyer     119
The Conversion of Aminoalcohols to Aminocarboxylic Acid Salts over Chromia-Promoted Skeletal Copper Catalysts   Dongsheng S. Liu   Noel W. Cant   Andrew J. Smith     131
Bromine-Free Tempo-Based Catalyst System for the Oxidation of Primary and Secondary Alcohols Using NaOCl as the Oxidant   Setrak K. Tanielyan   Robert L. Augustine   Indra Prakash   Kenneth E. Furlong   Handley E. Jackson     141
In situ Infrared Study of Catalytic Oxidation over Au/TiO2 Catalysts   Duane D. Miller   Steven S.C. Chuang     147
Symposium on Catalytic Hydrogenation     153
2006 Murray Raney Award Lecture: Synthesis and Features of New Raney[Registered] Catalysts from Metastable Precursors   Isamu Yamauchi     155
Competitive Hydrogenation of Nitrobenzene, Nitrosobenzene and Azobenzene   Elaine A. Gelder   S. David Jackson   C. Martin Lok     167
Selective Hydrogenation of Dehydrolinalool to Linalool Using Nanostructured Pd-Polymeric Composite Catalysts   Linda Z. Nikoshvili   Ester M. Sulman   Galine N. Demidenko   Valentina G. Matveeva   Mikhail G. Sulman   Ludmila M. Bronstein   Petr M. Valetskiy   Irina B. Tsvetkova     177
Modeling and Optimization of Complex Three-Phase Hydrogenations and Isomerizations under Mass-Transfer Limitation and Catalyst Deactivation   Tapio O. Salmi   Dmitry Yu. Murzin   Johan P. Warna   Jyri-Pekka Mikkola   Jeanette E. B. Aumo   Jyrki I. Kuusisto      187
The Effects of Various Catalyst Modifiers on the Hydrogenation of Fructose to Sorbitol and Mannitol   Daniel J. Ostgard   Virginie Duprez   Monika Berweiler   Stefan Roder   Thomas Tacke     197
Cavitating Ultrasound Hydrogenation of Water-Soluble Olefins Employing Inert Dopants: Studies of Activity, Selectivity and Reaction Mechanisms   Robert S. Disselkamp   Sarah M. Chajkowski   Kelly R. Boyles   Todd R. Hart   Charles H. F. Peden     213
The Treatment of Activated Nickel Catalysts for the Selective Hydrogenation of Pynitrile   Daniel J. Ostgard   Felix Roessler   Reinhard Karge   Thomas Tacke     227
Deactivation of Sponge Nickel and Ru/C Catalysts in Lactose and Xylose Hydrogenations   Jyrki Kuusisto   Jyri-Pekka Mikkola   Tapio Salmi     235
Selectivity Control in 1-Phenyl-1-Propyne Hydrogenation: Effect of Modifiers   S. David Jackson   Ron R. Spence     241
Hydrogenation and Isomerization Reactions of Olefinic Alcohols Catalyzed in Homogeneous Phase by Rh(I) Complexes   Maria G. Musolino   Giuseppe Apa   Andrea Donato   Rosario Pietropaolo     247
Reductive Amination of Isobutanol to Diisobutylamine on Vanadium Modified Raney[Registered] Nickel Catalyst    Sandor Gobolos   Jozsef L. Margitfalvi     253
Symposium on Novel Methods in Catalysis of Organic Reactions     259
How to Find the Best Homogeneous Catalyst   Gadi Rothenberg   Jos A. Hageman   Frederic Clerc   Hans-Werner Fruhauf   Johan A. Westerhuis     261
Novel Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquids for Arene Carbonylation   Ernesto J. Angueira   Mark G. White     271
Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Nitro Compounds to the Corresponding Amines on Raney[Registered] Copper Catalysts   Simon Robitaille   Genevieve Clement   Jean Marc Chapuzet   Jean Lessard     281
Selective Hydrogenolysis of Sugar Alcohols over Structured Catalysts   Chunshe (James) Cao   James F. White   Yong Wang   John G. Frye     289
Twinphos: A New Family of Chiral Ferrocene Tetra-Phosphine Ligands for Asymmetric Catalytic Transformations   Benoit Pugin   Heidi Landert   Martin Kesselgruber   Hans Meier   Richard Sachleben   Felix Spindler   Marc Thommen     293
Catalyst Library Design for Fine Chemistry Applications   Jozsef L. Margitfalvi   Andras Tompos   Sandor Gobolos   Emila Talas   Mihaly Hegedus      303
Dendrimer Templates for Pt and Au Catalysts   Bethany J. Auten   Christina J. Crump   Anil R. Singh   Bert D. Chandler     315
Symposium on Acid and Base Catalysis     325
Development of an Industrial Process for the Lewis Acid/Iodide Salt-Catalyzed Rearrangement of 3,4-Epoxy-1-Butene to 2,5-Dihydrofuran   Stephen N. Falling   John R. Monnier   Gerald W. Phillips   Jeffrey S. Kanel   Stephen A. Godleski     327
A New Economical and Environmentally Friendly Synthesis of 2,5-Dimethyl-2,4-Hexadiene   Alessandra O. Bianchi   Valerio Borzatta   Elisa Poluzzia   Angelo Vaccari     337
Supported Heteropoly Acid Catalysts for Friedel-Crafts Acylation   Kenneth G. Griffin   Peter Johnston   Roger Pretot   Paul A. van der Schaaf     347
Synthesis of Pseudoionones by Aldol Condensation of Citral with Acetone on Li-Modified MgO Catalysts   Veronica K. Diez   Juana I. Di Cosimo   Carlos Apesteguia     355
The One Step Synthesis of MIBK via Catalytic Distillation: A Preliminary Pilot Scale Study   William K. O'Keefe   Ming Jiang   Flora T. T. Ng   Garry L. Rempel     365
Symposium on "Green" Catalysis     375
Producing Polyurethane Foam from Natural Oil   Aaron Sanders   David Babb   Robbyn Prange   Mark Sonnenschein   Van Delk   Chris Derstine   Kurt Olson     377
Carbonylation of Chloropinacolone: A Greener Path to Commercially Useful Methyl Pivaloylacetate   Joseph R. Zoeller   Theresa Barnette     385
Recycling Homogeneous Catalysts for Sustainable Technology   Jason P. Hallett   Pamela Pollet   Charles A. Eckert   Charles L. Liotta     395
"Green" Catalysts for Enhanced Biodiesel Technology   Anton A. Kiss   Gadi Rothenberg   Alexandre C. Dimian     405
Continuous Deoxygenation of Ethyl Stearate: A Model Reaction for Production of Diesel Fuel Hydrocarbons   Mathias Snare   Iva Kubickova   Paivi Maki-Arvela   Kari Eranen   Dmitry Yu. Murzin     415
Glycerol Hydrogenolysis to Propylene Glycol under Heterogeneous Conditions   Simona Marincean   Lars Peereboom   Yaoyan Xi   Dennis J. Miller   James E. Jackson     427
Developing Sustainable Process Technology   Joseph A. Kocal     437
Selective Oxidation of Propylene to Propylene Oxide in C0[subscript 2] Expanded Liquid System   Hyun-Jin Lee    Tie-Pan Shi   Bala Subramaniam   Daryle H. Busch     447
Symposium on Other Topics in Catalysis     453
catASium[Registered] M: A New Family of Chiral Bisphospholanes and their Application in Enantioselective Hydrogenations   Thomas H. Riermeier   Axel Monsees   Jens Holz   Armin Borner   John Tarabocchia     455
Synthesis of Chiral 2-Amino-1-Phenylethanol   Robert Augustine   Setrak Tanielyan   Norman Marin   Gabriela Alvez     463
Selective Tertiary-Butanol Dehydration to Isobutylene via Reactive Distillation and Solid Acid Catalysis   John F. Knifton   John R. Sanderson     469
Leaching Resistance of Precious Metal Powder Catalysts - Part 2   Tim Pohlmann   Kimberly Humphries   Jaime Morrow   Tracy Dunn   Marisa Cruz   Konrad Mobus   Baoshu Chen     475
Optimization of Reductive Alkylation Catalysts by Experimental Design   Venu Arunajatesan   Marisa Cruz   Konrad Mobus   Baoshu Chen     481
Accelerated Identification of the Preferred Precious Metal Powder Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation of Multi-functional Substrates   Dorit Wolf   Steffen Seebald   Thomas Tacke      487
Transition Metal Removal from Organic Media by Deloxan[Registered] Metal Scavengers   Jaime B. Woods   Robin Spears   Jurgen Krauter   Tim McCarthy   Micheal Murphy   Lee Hord   Peter Doorley   Baoshu Chen     493
Electroreductive Pd-Catalyzed Ullmann Reactions in Ionic Liquids   Laura Duran Paction   Gadi Rothenberg     501
Author Index     507
Keyword Index     513