21st National Annual Meeting (June 7-12, 2009): Energy/Chemicals

Wednesday, June 10, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:20 PM

Grand Ballroom Salon B (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)

Chair:

Christopher W. Jones

1:30 PM

OA34

Formic Acid as a Hydrogen Source for Vapor-phase Catalytic Reactions
Dmitri A. Bulushev, University of Limerick; Julian R.H. Ross, University of Limerick

1:50 PM

OA35

Size Optimization of Ru Nanoparticles for the Generation of CO_x-free H₂ from Ammonia
Elizabeth D'Addio, University of Delaware; Jochen Lauterbach, University of Delaware

2:10 PM
Keynote

KA05

Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Sites of Photocatalysts for Water Splitting
Kazunari Domen, The University of Tokyo

2:50 PM

OA36

H₂ Activation and Base-promoted Hydride Transfer Reactions Using Transition Metal Diphosphine Complexes: Development of a Multi-Step Process to Regenerate Ammonia Borane
Michael T. Mock, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Robert G. Potter, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Daniel L. DuBois, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Donald M. Camaioni, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Tom Autrey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; John C. Linehan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

3:10 PM

Break

3:40 PM

OA37

Continuous Homogeneous Hydroformylation with Nanofiltration for Retention of Polymer Supported Rh Catalyst Complexes
Jing Fang, University of Kansas; Ranjan Jana, University of Kansas; Jon Tunge, University of Kansas; Bala Subramaniam, University of Kansas

4:00 PM

OA38

Carbonylation of Aryl Olefins and Alcohols using Immobilized Pd Complex Catalysts
Bibhas R. Sarkar, Chemical Engineering Division; Yuanchun Li, Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis; Raghunath V. Chaudhari, Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis

4:20 PM

OA39

Effects of Ligand Composition on the Activity of Rh(III) for the Oxidative Carbonylation of Toluene to p-Toluic Acid
Joseph Zakzeski, University of California Berkeley; Andrew Behn, University of California Berkeley; Alexis T. Bell, University of California Berkeley

4:40 PM

OA40

Novel Vapor-Phase Carbonylation of Dimethoxymethane over Acid Zeolites
Fuat E. Celik, University of California Berkeley; Tae-Jin Kim, University of California Berkeley; Alexis T. Bell, University of California Berkeley

5:00 PM

OA41

Structure-Activity Relationships of Au-based Catalysts for the Carbonylation of Methanol to Acetic Acid and Methyl Acetate: Identification of the Active Sites
Alexandre Goguet, CenTACat, Queen's University Belfast; Youssef Saih, CenTACat, Queen's University Belfast; Katabathini Narasimharao, CenTACat, Queen's University Belfast; Christopher Hardacre, CenTACat, Queen's University Belfast