Catalysis for Fine and Industrial Chemicals I

Monday, June 3, 2013: 3:40 PM-5:20 PM
French (Galt House Hotel)
Dieter von Deak, BASF Corporation, USA and Aditya Bhan, University of Minnesota, USA.
3:40 PM
Controlling Selectivity in Heterogeneous Catalysis with Organic Monolayers
J. Will Medlin, Karl Kahsar, Carolyn A. Schoenbaum and Daniel K. Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
4:00 PM
CO Selective Methanation over a Mesoporous Silica-Covered Ni-Alumina-Based Catalyst
Toshihiro Miyao, Weihua Shen, Kazutoshi Higashiyama, Noboru Hashimoto and Masahiro Watanabe, University of Yamanashi, Japan.
4:20 PM
Activity and Selectivity Trends for Diol Oxidation over Supported Pt Catalysts at Acidic Conditions
Matthew S. Ide and Robert J. Davis, University of Virginia, USA.
4:40 PM
Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Terminal Alkynes with Thiols to Alkynyl Sulfides
Yong Yang and Robert M. Rioux, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
5:00 PM
Synergetic Effect of Ce and Al in the Aerobic Oxidative Esterification of Benzyl Alcohol Over Au-Ce-Al Catalysts
Elena Smolentseva1, Vinicius V. Costa2, Rafaela F. Cotta2, Sergio Fuentes1, Elena V. Gusevskaya2 and Andrey Simakov3, (1)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, Mexico, (2)Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, (3)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.