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Professor Christian Hess is at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He was Humboldt Fellow at Texas A&M University, Otto Hahn Fellow of the Max Planck Society at the University of California at Berkeley and in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Emmy Noether Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin. Since 2010 he is director of the Eduard Zintl Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is the author of over 60 publications and patents in the area of surface chemistry and catalysis. His research activities are devoted to the synthesis, characterization and application of nanostructured materials for catalysis, sensing and energy storage with a strong focus on the development and use of in situ spectroscopic techniques. Professor Robert Schl÷gl is in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, and has been Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society since 1994. His achievements include: Guest Professorship, UniversitÚ Louis Pasteur, Honorary Professorship at the Technical University Berlin and the Humboldt University Berlin, Tetelman Fellow, Yale University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is also the author of over 507 publications, 8 families of patents and patent applications, with 184 presentations and invited talks.

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The book gives a comprehensive summary of the existing information on the structural/electronic properties, chemistry and catalytic properties of vanadium and molybdenum containing catalysts. As at least one of these two elements is essential to most partial oxidation catalysts the book is of great interest to advanced students of catalysis and researchers both in academia and industry. Despite major developments in the field, the last book with a similar scope was published in 1989 and therefore a new book is overdue. The book benefits largely from the fact that the subject is a major research focus at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry amongst other departments at the Fritz Haber Institute, a world leading institution for catalysis research, ensuring an up-to-date treatise. Such an integrated approach including the relation of in situ spectroscopic results from real catalysts to those of model catalytic systems has not been accomplished before. The introductory chapter discusses the importance of nanoscience for the controlled synthesis of catalysts with functional properties. The following two chapters introduce the necessary background regarding surface properties and preparation techniques, leading from a textbook level to the current state of knowledge. The following chapter starts with an extensive survey and analysis of the existing open and patent literature, which is an essential knowledge source for the development of the new generation of partial oxidation catalysts and will be of particular value to those developing new partial oxidation catalysts. In the remaining subchapters, important examples from current research on partial oxidation reactions are reviewed from experts in the field. The next chapter discusses the importance of 2- and 3-dimensional model systems for a fundamental understanding of the structure of transition metal oxide catalysts and its correlation to reactivity. These results are related to those of the real catalytic systems. The last chapter gives an outlook on research opportunities within the area of partial oxidation reactions.

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Nanostructured Catalysts

Selective Oxidations

The Royal Society of Chemistry

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Christian Hess, 1, 
Chapter 2 C–H Activation of Alkanes in Selective Oxidation Reactions on Solid Oxide Catalysts Johannes A. Lercher and Frederik N. Naraschewski, 5, 
Section I Oxide-Catalyzed Selective Oxidations of Light Hydrocarbons (Chapters 3–7), 
Chapter 3 Catalysis of Oxidative Methane Conversions Evgenii V. Kondratenko and Manfred Baerns, 35, 
Chapter 4 Propane-Selective Oxidation to Acrylic Acid Annette Trunschke, 56, 
Chapter 5 Ammoxidation of Propylene and Propane to Acrylonitrile Robert K. Grasselli, 96, 
Chapter 6 Selective Oxidation of n-Butane over Vanadium–Phosphorous Oxide Moises A. Carreon and Vadim V. Guliants, 141, 
Chapter 7 Routes to Methacrylic Acid via Partial Oxidation Stephan A. Schunk and Nadine Brem, 169, 
Section II Other Selective Oxidations (Chapters 8–11), 
Chapter 8 Gold as a Selective Oxidation Catalyst Graham J. Hutchings, 193, 
Chapter 9 Ethylene Epoxidation over Silver Catalysts Valerii I. Bukhtiyarov and Axel Knop-Gericke, 214, 
Chapter 10 Ruthenium Active Catalytic States: Oxidation States and Methanol Oxidation Reactions Raoul Blume, Michael Hävecker, Spiros Zafeiratos, Detre Techner, Axel Knop-Gericke, Robert Schlögl, Luca Gregoratti, Alexei Barinov and Maya Kiskinova, 
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Chapter 11 Styrene Synthesis: In-Situ Model Catalysis Studies on Ethylbenzene Dehydrogenation Wolfgang Ranke, 266, 
Section III Supported Vanadium-Oxide Systems and Mechanistic Studies (Chapters 12–14), 
Chapter 12 Highly Dispersed Vanadium-Oxide Catalysts Christian Hess, 299, 
Chapter 13 Surface-Science Models with Chemical Complexity Christian Hess, 326, 
Chapter 14 Mechanistic Aspects of Short Contact Time Oxidative Functionalization of Propane and Ethane from Temporal Analysis of Products Evgenii V. Kondratenko, 340, 
Chapter 15 Characteristics of Selective Oxidation Reactions Robert Schlögl and Christian Hess, 355, 
Chapter 16 Reaction Engineering of Oxidation Reactions Arne Dinse and Reinhard Schomäcker, 398, 
Chapter 17 Outlook Christian Hess, 427, 
Subject Index, 430,