The increasing importance of carbon materials in catalytic processes is analyzed in terms of
the most important characteristics of these materials when acting as catalysts or catalyst …

The synthesis of a large number of fine chemicals, particularly in the field of flavor and
fragrance chemistry [1, 2] and pharmaceuticals [3], involves the selective hydrogenation of …

The promotion of hydrogenation reactions by transition-metal-based heterogeneous
catalysts was established many decades ago but is still quite common in the chemical …

Two commercial activated carbons were used as catalyst supports in Pt/AC catalysts.
Activated carbons were used in their unoxidized form or after either liquid phase oxidation …

We review synthesis, structural characterization, and catalysis by supported bimetallic
clusters. Initial steps in the preparations include (a) adsorption of molecular metal clusters …

Determination of the atomic structure of solid surfaces typically depends on comparison of
measured properties with simulations based on hypothesized structural models. For simple …

The effect of adding Sn to Pt/CeO2–Al2O3 and Pt/Al2O3 catalysts was studied with X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), 119Sn Mössbauer spectroscopy, and adsorption …

Various adsorption structures of acrolein (propenal), crotonaldehyde (2-butenal), and prenal
(3-methyl-2-butenal) on Pt (111) are compared by means of first-principle density functional …

To determine whether the method of “strong electrostatic adsorption”(SEA) can be extended
to the preparation of carbon-supported Pt catalysts, a series of carbons of different type …

Two heat-treated carbon blacks, one of them subjected to an oxidizing treatment with
hydrogen peroxide, have been used as supports for platinum, which has been introduced …