Fundamentals of Catalysis: Mechanisms and Elementary Steps I

Wednesday, June 5, 2013: 3:40 PM-5:20 PM
Segell (Galt House Hotel)
W. Curtis Conner, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Susannah L. Scott, University of California Santa Barbara, USA.
3:40 PM
 Keynote 
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Elementary Reaction Steps on Late Transition Metal Catalysts, and in Their Sintering
Eric M. Karp, Jason R.V. Sellers, T. L. Silbaugh, James C. Sharp, C. A. Wolcott, I. X. Green and Charles T. Campbell, University of Washington, USA.
4:20 PM
Elementary Steps of Light Olefin Cracking on MFI Type Zeolites
Stefan Schallmoser1, André C. van Veen1 and Johannes A. Lercher1,2, (1)Technical University of Munich, Germany, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.
4:40 PM
Hydrodesulfurization on Re Metal and Sulfide Catalysts: Elementary Steps and Effects of Metal-Sulfur Binding Energy on Reactivity
Edwin Yik1, Huamin Wang2 and Enrique Iglesia1, (1)University of California Berkeley, USA, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.
5:00 PM
Surface "Titration" Investigation of the Role of Formate in Methanol Synthesis on Copper Catalysts
Charles A. Mims1, Yong Yang2,3, Charles H.F. Peden2 and Charles T. Campbell3, (1)University of Toronto, Canada, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, (3)University of Washington, USA.