ABSTRACT Terrestrial environmental and biological systems are being threatened by the tremendous amount of human carbon dioxide emissions. Therefore, it is crucial to develop a sustainable energy system based on CO2 as chemical feedstock. In this review, an introduction to the CO2 activation and transformation has been made, together with a more comprehensive study of the catalytical reduction of CO2

ABSTRACT This review summarizes the recent studies on the synthesis of secondary amines by one-pot amination of aldehydes and ketones over heterogeneous catalysts. Amines are widely applied as the key intermediates in chemical industry for the synthesis of various commodities such as agrochemicals, drugs, detergents, lubricants, food-additives and polymers. Direct catalytic reductive amination of carbonyl

ABSTRACT Porous materials have attracted considerable attention in materials science, chemistry and multidisciplinary areas of research due to their diverse structures, tailorable functionalities, large surface areas, remarkable optical transparency, confinement and shape selectivity effects. The precise architecture of porous photocatalytic materials has been extensively reported by the hybridization

ABSTRACT Two-dimensional (2D) zeolites with modifiable structures, can possess great advantages in catalysis compared to three-dimensional (3D) rigid ones. Three kinds of 2D zeolites, including traditional lamellar ones, 2D zeolites induced by oriented growth with specially designed structural-directing agents, and 2D intermediates derived from germanosilicates, are covered in this review. 2D zeolites

ABSTRACT Water is ubiquitous in many thermal treatments and reaction conditions involving zeolite catalysts, but the potential impacts are complex. The different types of water interaction with zeolites have profound consequences in the stability, structure/composition, and reactivity of these important catalysts. This review analyzes the current knowledge about the mechanistic aspects of water adsorption

ABSTRACT Photocatalytic degradation is an upcoming technique for the removal of organic pollutants from wastewater. This topic attracts increasing interest due to its potential of utilizing “freely” available solar energy for environmental purification. In recent years, MoS2 based photocatalysts have garnered substantial attention for their graphene-like structure and suitable bandgap for visible light

ABSTRACT Abuse of antibiotics in animal husbandry and medicine has led to severe environmental problems especially the risk of bacterial resistance. Different from common organic pollutants, antibiotics in wastewater could not be easily removed by biological treatment because of their poor biodegradability. Electrocatalysis including electrocatalytic oxidation and reduction has gained great attention

ABSTRACT The alkylation process involves two competitive paths of O- and C-alkylation and achieving better selectivity for desired products is a very challenging problem. The development of new process for synthesis of O-methylated products of phenol and dihydric phenols is a subject of high industrial and academic interest. Alkyl phenyl ethers, especially anisole and 4-methoxyphenol, have captivated

ABSTRACT The acetophenone stereoselective reduction reactions carried out by different chemical or biochemical methodologies reported in the literature were analyzed. This study showed the importance of evaluation in each reaction step, both holistically and quantitatively, even if the amounts used are at the mmol level. It is clear that the use of catalysts does not guarantee that the chemical process

ABSTRACT Cu species (ions or nanoparticles) have gained considerable attention in many research fields, mainly in catalysis. In particular, the development of novel support materials, especially those based on polysaccharides, has allowed using Cu-based catalysts in a vast number of applications. Polysaccharides show attractive characteristics that encourage the researchers to develop support materials

ABSTRACT To achieve carbon-neutral energy vectors, researchers have investigated various sulfur-based thermochemical cycles. The sulfur–iodine cycle has emerged as a cost-effective global process with massive hydrogen production potentials. However, all sulfur-based thermochemical cycles involve sulfuric acid decomposition reaction, which is highly corrosive and energy intensive. The activation energy

ABSTRACT Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials have attracted intense interest since the successful discovery of mechanically exfoliated graphene. Their unique chemical, mechanical, optical, and electrical properties have been exploited in a wide range of applications, including electrical/optoelectrical devices, solar cells, sensors, membranes, and electro/photocatalysis. However, the application of

ABSTRACT Formic acid is a liquid organic hydrogen carrier. Metal and metal-complex catalysts are known to catalyze the hydrogen production from formic acid and hydrogen transfer reactions with formic acid as a hydrogen donor. In this review, we will show that heterogeneous catalysts with single metal atoms are promising for these reactions. The main emphasis is done to the catalysts with single atoms

ABSTRACT The supply of environmentally friendly petroleum products has extreme importance in ensuring a reliable healthy climate globally. The elimination of obstinate sulfur complexes is an enormous task in the current challenging legislative situation for fuel refining companies. The conversion of these obstinate sulfur complexes is challenging in the progression of deeper photocatalytic oxidative

ABSTRACT The involvement of CO2 as a renewable and abundant feedstock toward a carbon balanced future has led to production of several value-added products. The primary focus in the current effort is to assess fixation of CO2 and epoxides into cyclic carbonates by employing state-of-the-art metal complexes as promising catalytic systems. Our attention is restricted to Earth-abundant metals such as

ABSTRACT C-H activation is a prominent tool in organic synthesis. The potential application of C-H activation in the diversification of heterocycles has attracted widespread industrial interest. Reactions involving alkylation, alkenylation, and alkynylation have an edge in modern organic synthesis and are widely employed to synthesize vital molecules. Among different metal catalysts used in C-H activation

ABSTRACT The development of materials that can exhibit thermal resistance at very high temperatures, thus allowing them to be applied as catalysts and thermal insulators, amongst other possible uses, is a research subject of great interest. This is the case for hexaaluminates, a class of hexagonal aluminate compounds with a unique structure that are stable at very high temperatures up to 1600°C and

ABSTRACT Carbon dioxide (CO2) utilization for the production of fuels and energy-rich chemicals is one of the attractive topics of research in modern-day chemistry. The main barriers in the CO2 utilization include: 1) the cost associated in CO2 capture, separation, purification, and transportation; 2) higher energy demand for conversion due to its higher kinetic and thermodynamic stability; 3) the

ABSTRACT In the past three decades, rare-earth metal triflates including scandium triflate, yttrium triflate, and the lanthanide (La−Lu) triflate, were widely employed in the organic chemistry, such as cyclization, C-H bond functionalization and types of reactions. Recently, the approaches using rare-earth metal triflates as catalysts have been mainly focusing on (1) achieving the high regioselectivity

ABSTRACT Nature’s repertoire of bio-halogenase enzymes is intriguing with halogenases from various natural product biosynthetic clusters that carry out site and region-specific halogenation of diverse bioactive precursors and molecules. Currently, we have a comprehensive catalogue of cryptic and non-cryptic halogenases that act on simple to complex aliphatic and aromatic molecular scaffolds. This will

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have received boosting attention due to their high atom utilization and incredible activities in a wide range of catalytic processes. Numerous SACs have been investigated for CO oxidation both experimentally and theoretically, including noble-metal catalysts (Pt, Au, Pd, etc.) and non-noble-metal catalysts (Fe, Co, Ni, etc.), in which the atomically dispersed metal atoms

Solid acids as heterogeneous catalysts for cellulose hydrolysis have drawn increasing attention; however, current solid acids face challenges such as high catalyst loading (low catalytic activity), poor catalyst-substrate interaction, deficient hydrothermal stability, and unsatisfactory recyclability. This review critically discussed the recent efforts and progress in overcoming the issues of solid

The usage of zero valent iron (Fe) nanoparticles for various organic transformations has been extensively reported in the last decade because of high natural abundance, low toxicity and low cost of Fe metal. The development of synthetic strategies used for fabrication of iron nanoparticles and their stabilization using various supporting materials has made a significant contribution to their use in

21st century global market place is moving towards subtainable development and without this approach our future would be at risk. Today’s chemical industries need to give more focus for the planet through improving the environmental footprints of fuels and chemicals manufacturing processes. Oxidation and hydrogenation processes are widely used in the production of chemicals and fuels. Oxidation processes

The synthesis of anode electrocatalyst with high activity and durability for methanol oxidation reaction has been one of the main focuses of researchers in recent years. Several works are reviewed in this paper to summarize and compare the performance of electrocatalysts comprising of noble and non-noble metals. The effect of manipulating catalysts by introducing nanostructured morphology, metal alloys

Glycerol is one of the top 12 platform chemicals obtained from biomass. Its surplus availability as a by-product of biodiesel, fat-splitting and soap manufacturing industries and affordable price lends significant opportunity for its valorization, using solid catalysts, into propanediols (PDOs), particularly to 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO), by selective hydrogenolysis. 1,3-PDO is an important chemical

The hydrogen spillover effect (HSPE) on metal catalysts supported on non-reducible oxides is still controversial. Our investigation shows that the controversy comes from a misunderstanding about statements of pioneer works. Papers accepting or rejecting the HSPE and based on these statements were found both not pertinent. Factually, the oxide surface OH groups play an important role in the formation

In the context of heterogeneous catalysis, oxygen on metals and oxygen on metal oxides are often considered as two different phenomena that are little related to each other. The former is mainly investigated in the field of Surface Science and the calculation chemistry, while the latter in the field of conventional catalysis. In this review we performed a joint analysis of the literature data obtained

Hydrodesulfurization is a valuable cornerstone in the modern refineries, aiming to reduce sulfur-containing compounds to produce cleaner end-products, by using heterogeneous metal catalysts at elevated temperatures and hydrogen pressures. The removal of refractory sulfur is a great challenge in commercial HDS of diesel fuels. This prospective review briefs synthesis factors influencing the performance

ABSTRACT Aromatic monomers from controlled lignin depolymerization are a possible valorization of biomass lignin-residues generated in cellulosic biorefineries and in current pulp and paper industries. Among different lignin depolymerization approaches, selective catalytic hydrogenolysis is a potential pathway for lignin conversion into desired aromatics. This review provides a summary of recent work

ABSTRACT The use of machine learning (ML) in catalysis has been significantly increased in recent years due to the astonishing developments in data processing technologies and the accumulation of a large amount of data in published literature and databases. The data generated in house or extracted from external sources have been analyzed using various ML techniques to see patterns, develop models for

The world’s biodiesel increasing production is leading to the accumulation of its main by-product, crude glycerol, with almost no economic value, which valorization is crucial to increase biodiesel production sustainability and competitiveness. Glycerol is a potential platform chemical, with several valorization routes identified. Among them, selective catalytic aerobic oxidation is an attractive and

Fischer–Tropsch (FT) process is a promising method for producing liquid fuels and other valuable chemicals through CO hydrogenation. The catalyst activity and product selectivity can be strongly affected by different parameters such as support and promoters. The physicochemical and textural properties of the support affect the metal–support interaction, crystallite size, metal dispersion, mass transfer

In recent years, the reactions of abundantly available, inexpensive, and structurally diverse alkenyl acids (-C=C-COOH) with C-X (X = halogen) or C-H coupling partner have emerged as vital strategies for the streamlined synthesis of functionalized alkenes with extrusion of innocuous CO2. Various alkenyl acids such as cinnamic acids can act as stable surrogates for the polymerization prone styrenes/olefins

This review mainly focuses on purely Ag-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar azide-alkyne cycloaddition (AgAAC) so called click reaction to synthesize 1,4-regioisomers of 1,2,3-triazoles. The most established catalyst Cu (I) developed by Fokin–Sharpless and Meldal group in 2002 for AAC reaction have been further extended to different other transition metal catalysts because of certain limitations of CuAAC methods

Implemented with the highly efficient concept of Dynamic Kinetic Resolution (DKR), dynamic covalent chemistry can be a useful strategy for the synthesis of enantioenriched compounds. This gives rise to dynamic covalent kinetic resolution (DCKR), a subset of DKR that over the last decades has emerged as increasingly fruitful, with many applications in asymmetric synthesis and catalysis. All DKR protocols

Pesticides and organic waste constitute a group of environmental pollutants that are widely distributed in our environment due to various human activities. Adsorptive removal and photocatalytic degradation of these pollutants from water have emerged as energy and cost-effective technologies. However, advanced oxidation technologies are gaining attention as an effective method for wastewater treatment

ABSTRACT It is crucial to control NOx emission into the atmosphere because it can make several harmful health and environmental effects. Many techniques are available for NOx reduction, and among them, selective catalytic reduction (SCR) is one of the most efficient techniques for NOx removal in flue gas cleaning process. The reduction of NOx by CO offers a simple and low-cost technology for reducing

ABSTRACT Partial oxidation of methane (POM) offers a promising option to produce syngas for downstream processes such as hydrogen production and Fischer-Tropsch processes. POM in fixed-bed reactors requires an oxygen separation plant with high operation cost and safety risks. On the contrary, membrane reactors can provide an improved process by integrating both oxygen separation and catalytic reaction

ABSTRACT Alkanediols with five and six carbon atoms (1,2- & 1,5-pentanediols and 1,2- & 1,6-hexanediols, respectively) are an important class of industrial chemicals having wide application. Their production from lignocellulosic biomass-derived furfural and its derivatives using solid catalysts is a sustainable and attractive approach. Several bifunctional catalysts with metal (for hydrogenation/hydrogenolysis)

ABSTRACT Inverse electron demand Diels–Alder reactions have gained comprehensive attraction in recent years. Accordingly, the synthetic approaches for one of the coupling partners, namely s-tetrazine, have been extensively investigated. Generally, the main synthetic method of s-tetrazine relied on the condensation of two nitriles to give the corresponding symmetric/asymmetric tetrazines with moderate

ABSTRACT This article provides a comprehensive and critical review of the latest studies on catalytic glycerol dehydration-oxidation to acrylic acid. The two-bed catalytic system in one or two reactors involves glycerol dehydration to acrolein and subsequent oxidation of acrolein to acrylic acid. Zeolites, metal oxides, heteropoly acids, and phosphates are effective in the dehydration of glycerol to

Catalysis Changes the Scenario Phenyl hydrazine was the first hydrazine derivative prepared by Emil Fisher in 1875 for the characterization of sugars via hydrazones formation. Since then, various chemical applications have been demonstrated for hydrazines such as the synthesis of heterocyclic molecules like Fischer indole synthesis and hydrazone formation, among others. In the recent scenario, the

The present review compiles and critically evaluates studies on the synthesis of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) using different techniques and catalysts with reaction conditions, a wide range of applications and environmental impact. In this review, we compare different strategies, wide variety of catalysts, and advantages and disadvantages of various DMC synthesis routes. We particularly focus on catalyst

In the recent years, zinc oxide has emerged as one of the promising alternate materials to titania for photocatalytic applications due to its several advantages properties. This review recapitulates the ongoing advancement in the field of ZnO-based heterojunctions as visible light responsive photocatalysts for energy conversion (hydrogen evolution) and environmental remediation (pollutants degradation)

To date, although no commercial process for the selective oxidation of methane has been realized, various novel processes with effective solid materials operated at low temperature have been proposed. It is found that the addition of water in any processes not only influences the activity, selectivity, and stability of the solid materials but also affects the extraction efficiency of methanol from

During the past decades, there have been enormous developments in catalysis in the form of great innovations such as precise structure characterization, surface functionalization, and effective utilization of active sites. In both academic and industrial sectors, the development of efficient nanosized catalysts has received considerable attention because it can improve the efficiency of the catalytic

Caprolactam is the precursor of many industrial chemical productions as in nylon industry, plastic industry, paint industry, lysine synthesis and cross-linking for polyurethanes. The production of caprolactam has been focus much from last three decades among the scientific community to fulfill the industrial need under environment precautions. Herein a sequential and explanatory review broadly covering

Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 is known as one of the most promising methods to produce valuable fuels and value-added compounds. To overcome selectivity and efficiency downsides, various photocatalysts have been designed and developed. This review discusses the state-of-the-art in photo-conversion of CO2 over graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)-based composites. The modification strategies to improve

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In this review, we have systematically discussed diesel particulate composition and its formation, understanding of which is essential to design the effective catalyst compositions. The most commonly used after treatment strategies such as diesel oxidation catalysts, diesel particulate filters, and partial flow filters are described followed by chronological and category-wise discussions on various

Gold catalysis in the last two decade has witnessed remarkable improvements in terms of efficiency and scope of application in numerous organic reactions. In particular, the unique ability of gold catalysts to activate π-bonds to effect various cycloaddition reactions has received significant attention. However, the catalytic application of gold in creating new opportunities for the regioselective

Catalytic conversion (hydrolysis) of carbohydrate polymers present in the lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars is a key step in the production of bioethanol. Although, acid and enzymatic catalysts are conventionally used for the catalysis of various lignocellulosic biomass, recently application of immobilized enzymes (biocatalysts) have been considered as the most promising approach. Immobilization

Alkene epoxidations are an important class of reactions carried out in industry; however, current methods are plagued by problems, including high cost, difficulty in recovering catalysts, and generation of large quantities of acidic and chlorinated waste. In recent years, nanocatalysts have been considered as robust, heterogeneous alternatives to homogeneous catalysts. This work evaluates silver- and

The pyrrole molecular framework is found in a large number of natural and synthetic compounds of great importance. Since functionalized pyrroles are essential for the progress of many branches of science, its synthesis by simple, efficient and eco-friendly routes are particularly attractive in modern organic and bio-organic chemistry. To this end, a number of synthetic methods have been developed,

This review provides an overview of recent developments in the area of aqueous biphasic hydroformylation of higher olefins using metal catalysts and surfactants, cosolvents, thermoregulated ligands, cyclodextrins, and most importantly emerging water-soluble nonphosphine ligands. Water-soluble phosphine ligands have been widely explored for aqueous biphasic hydroformylation; however, phosphines are

Globally, considerable effort and resources are being channeled toward controlling the rising threat from pollution and other related impacts from man-made activities, which have detrimental effects on human health and the environment. The presence of some associated gases such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides in the flue gas interfering with the carbon capture processes are responsible for acid

The fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) technology is one of the pillars of the modern petroleum industry which converts the crude oil fractions into many commodity fuels and platform chemicals, such as gasoline. Although the FCC field is quite mature, the research scope is still enormous due to changing FCC feedstock, gradual shifts in market demands and evolved unit operations. In this review, we have

Chemical fixation of CO2 into useful organic compounds has been attracting much attention from the viewpoint of CO2 emission reduction and energy structure reformation. A useful and widely investigated chemical utilization of CO2 is the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates. Efforts have been paid to the design and preparation of various catalyst systems that are active

The selective functionalization of inert C-H bonds is always challenging due to their abundance and large bond dissociation energies. Despite recent advancements, the engagement of inert building blocks for distant functionalization is the most appealing approach for the past decade for the construction of complex molecules. Along with the upsurge of proximal C-H bond activation methods, the presence