ISHHC XII - International Symposium on Relations between Homogenous and Heterogeneous Catalysis

ISHHC XIII

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Scientific Program

 

 

                                            Sunday, July 15, 2007

 

4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

                            Reception and Registration

       Faculty Club, University of California Berkeley

 

Monday, July 16, 2007

 

 

7:30 – 8:30

                                      

                                        Registration

                                Stanley Hall Atrium

 

 

Morning                                           Lecture Hall A

Chair:  Gabor Somorjai               105 Stanley Hall

 

8:30 – 9:00

 

                                    Opening Remarks

                                   Gabor A. Somorjai

 

9:00 – 9:45

Plenary Lecture:  Jan-E. Bäckvall, Stockholm University, Sweden

“Combination of Enzymes and Homogeneous Metal Catalysts. A Powerful Approach in Asymmetric Catalysis”

9:45 – 10:30

Plenary Lecture:  Hans-Joachin Freund, Fritz-Haber-Institute, Germany

"Model Systems in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Selectivity Studied at the Atomic Level"

Break

10:50 – 11:35

Plenary Lecture:  Jens K. Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark

“Structural Effects in Reactivity of Metal Surface and Nanoparticles”

11:35 – 12:20

Plenary Lecture:  Bruno Chaudret, CNRS, Toulouse, France

“Organometallic Nanoparticles: A Link between Molecular Organometallic Complexes and Heterogeneous Catalysts”

Lunch

 

 

Afternoon

Chair:  Francisco Zaera

        

         Lecture Hall A

        105 Stanley Hall

2:00 – 2:35

Keynote Lecture:  Jean-Marie Basset, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France

"Where are we to Day in the Overlap between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis? "

2:35 – 3:10

Keynote Lecture:  Norbert Kruse, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

“Catalytic CO Hydrogenation: Mechanisms and Kinetics from Studies on the Nano- and macroscale”

Break

3:30 – 4:05

Keynote Lecture:  Walter Kaminsky, University of Hamburg, Germany

"In-situ Polymerization of Olefins on Nanoparticles or Fibers by Metallocene Catalysis"

4:05 – 4:40

Keynote Lecture:  Georg Held, Reading University, UK

"The Chemistry of Intrinsically Chiral Surfaces – Enzymes in Two dimensions"

4:40 – 5:00

Oral Presentation:  Alex Bell, University of California, Berkeley, USA

“Selective Oxidation of Methanol to Formaldehyde on Isolated Vanadate Species Supported on Silica and Titania”

 

Afternoon

Chair:  Bruce Gates

                       Lecture Hall B

              106 Stanley Hall

2:00 – 2:20

Oral Presentation Nicola Scott, Cambridge University, UK

Enantiospecific Interaction at an Intrinsically Chiral Surface: A RAIRS Study of Alanine on CU {531}.

2:20 – 2:40

Oral Presentation:  Eric L. Margelefsky, California Inst. of Technology, USA“A Mesoporous Silica Heterogeneous Catalyst Containing Adjacent Sulfonic Acid and Thiol Groups for the Synthesis of Bisphenol A”

2:40 – 3:00

Oral Presentation:  Christopher W. Jones, Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA

“Design of Highly Active and Enantioselective Recyclable Oligomeric/Polymeric Co-Salen Catalysts for the Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution of Epoxides”

3:00 – 3:20

Oral Presentation:  Imre Kiricsi, University of Szeged, Hungary

“Identification of Reaction Intermediates on Supported Metal Surfaces”

Break

3:30 – 3:50

Oral Presentation:  Ive Hermans, K. U. Leuven, Belgium

“Autoxidation Chemistry: Bridging the Gap between Homogeneous Radical Chemistry and (Heterogeneous) Catalysis”

3:50 – 4:10

Oral Presentation:  Harold H. Kung, Northwestern University, USA

“Catalysis in a Nanocage Environment”

4:10 – 4:30

Oral Presentation:  Jie Fan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Ordered Mesoporous TiO2-based Materials as Highly Efficient Catalyst for Solvent-Free Benzyl Alcohol Selective Oxidation

4:30 – 4:50

Oral Presentation:  Richard Joyner, Nottingham Trent University, UK

“Heterogeneous Catalysts and Enzymes Moving Closer Together:  Mechanistic Similarities and Differences between Fe-ZEM-5 and Cytochrome P450 Oxidation Catalysts”

 

 


 

 

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

 

 

Morning

Chair:  Ron Mason

                Lecture Hall A

               105 Stanley Hall

8:30 – 9:15

Plenary Lecture:  Sunney Xie, Harvard University, USA

“Single Molecule Enzymology”

9:15 – 10:00

Plenary Lecture:  Per Siegbahn, University of Stockholm, Sweden

“Reaction Mechanisms of Redox-Active Enzymes”

Break

10:20 –11:05

Plenary Lecture:  Francisco Zaera, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA

Mechanistic Details of Chiral Modification in Catalysis”

11:05 – 11:50

Plenary Lecture:  Carolyn Bertozzi, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA

“Catalysis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology”

11:50 – 12:25

Keynote Lecture:  Paul Alivisatos, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA

“Hollow, Nested, Striped and Segmented Colloidal Inorganic Nanocrystals as a Potential New Catalysts”

Lunch

 

Afternoon

Chair:  Tobin Marks

             Lecture Hall A

           105 Stanley Hall

2:00 – 2:35

Keynote Lecture:  István Horváth, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

“Integration of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalytic Processes for Sustainable Biomass Conversion

2:35 – 3:10

Keynote Lecture:  Anders Holmen, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway

“The Relation between Structure and Composition of Supported Nanoparticles on Catalyst Performance”

Break

3:30 – 4:05

Keynote Lecture:  Malgorzata Witko, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

“Molybdenum Active Centers in Hetero- and Homogeneous Catalytic Systems- Description from First Principles”

4:05 – 4:25

Oral Presentation:  Peter Maitlis, The University of Sheffield, UK

Organometallic Models for Reactions on Metal Surfaces:  A New Look at Mechanisms for Chain Growth in he Fischer-Tropsch Reaction

4:25 – 4:45

Oral Presentation:  Peter Stair, Northwestern University, USA

“Vanadium Oxide Catalysts in AAO Scaffolds”

4:45 – 5:05

Oral Presentation:  Thomas Maschmeyer, The Univ. of Sydney, Australia

“Immobilised Acidic Ionic Liquids as New Solid Acid Catalysts for Biodiesel Synthesis”

 

Afternoon

Chair:  Richard Joyner

              Lecture Hall B

             106 Stanley Hall

2:00 – 2:20

Oral Presentation:  Devis Di Tommaso, University College of London, UK

New Insights into the Enantioselectivity in the Ruthenium Catalysed Asymmmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones.  A Computational Study”

2:20 – 2:40

Oral Presentation:  Xinhe Bao, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

“Synergetic Confinement Effect of Carbon Nanotube and the Encapsulated Metallic Nano-particles on Catalysis”

2:40 – 3:00

Oral Presentation:  Hans Schulz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

“Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis and Hydroformylation of Olefins on Cobalt Catalysts:  Differences and Similarities”

3:00 - 3:20

Oral Presentation:  Heinz Frei, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., USA

Time-Resolved Ft-IR Spectroscopy of Heterogeneous Catalysis in Nanoporous Solids under Reaction Conditions”

      Break

3:30 – 3:50

Oral Presentation:  Gerd Buntkowsky, FSU Jena, Germany

“Solid State and Gas Phase NMR Studies of Immobilized Catalysts and Catalytic Active Nanoparticles

3:50 – 4:10

Oral Presentation:  Philippe Sautet, CNRS Lyon, France

“Modeling Surface Organometallic Chemistry by a Combination of Experiments with First Principle Calculations”

4:10 – 4:30

Oral Presentation:  Randall Meyer, University of Chicago, USA

“A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study of CO Hydrogenation Mechanisms with Metal Carbonyl Catalysts”

4:30 – 4:50

Oral Presentation:  Alex Katz, University of California, Berkeley, USA

“Towards Understanding the Role of Surface in the Heterogenization of Homogeneous Catalysts”

 

6:30 9:00

 

 

        Banquet and Cruise on the San Francisco Bay


 

 

 

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

 

Morning

Chair:  Peter Stair

                        Lecture Hall A

               105 Stanley Hall

8:30 – 9:15

Plenary Lecture:  Avelino Corma, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

“Well Defined Active Sites Help to Relate Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis”

9:15 – 10:00

Plenary Lecture:  Tobin J. Marks, Northwestern University, USA

“Synthesis of New Polymeric Materials Using Highly Electrophilic Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts”

     Break

10:20 – 11:05

Plenary Lecture:  Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

“On Colloidal Nano-Catalysis”

11:05 – 11:40

Keynote Lecture:  Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University, UK

“Gold Catalysis using Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysts”

11:40 – 12:15

Keynote Lecture:  Neville V. Richardson, University of St. Andrews, UK

“The Quest for Enantioselectivity in Heterogeneous Catalysis”

      Lunch

Afternoon

                                        Stanley Hall

                               Atrium

 

 

2:00 - 5:00

 

 

 

 

 

                       Poster Session

                          Wine and Cheese Reception 


 

       

 

Thursday, July 19, 2007

 

Morning

Chair:  Heinz Frei

                             Lecture Hall A

                  105 Stanley Hall

8:30 – 9:15

Plenary Lecture:  Yasuhiro Iwasawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan

“Conceptual Integration of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalyses for New Sustainable Green Processes on Catalyst Surfaces”

9:15 – 10:00

Plenary Lecture:  T. Don Tilley, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Well-defined, Surface-Bound Catalytic Centers:  Relationships between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis”

   Break

10:20 – 11:05

Plenary Lecture:  Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley, USA

“Metal Nanocrystals:  Shape Control, Assembly, Surface Chemistry and Catalysis”

11:05 – 11:50

Plenary Lecture:  Thomas Colacot, Johnson Matthey, USA

“Highly Active Supported and Unsupported Homogeneous Tunable Catalysts for Challenging Coupling Reactions”

11:50 – 12:25

Keynote Lecture: Riitta Keiski, University of Oulu, Finland

“Combining the Best Features of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis – The Importance of Catalyst Nanoparticles in Microreactors Design”

  Lunch

 

Afternoon

Chair:  Graham Hutchings

                Lecture Hall A

          105 Stanley Hall

2:00 – 2:20

Oral Presentation: Oral Presentation: De Chen, Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology, Norway

“Catalysis on Distorted Nanoparticles”

2:20 – 2:40

Oral Presentation:  Song Ihl Woo, KAIST, Korea

“Preparation of Polymer Nanocomposites during Polymerizatin catalyzed over Homogeneous Catalysts Support on Nanomaterials”

2:40 – 3:00

Oral Presentation:  Giuliano Giambastiani, ICCOM – CNR, Florence, Italy

Tetrahedral (Imino)pyridine CoII Complexes as a Versatile Tool for the Conversion of Ethylene and Norbornene: From Oligomers to LDPE-coated Nanocomposites”

3:00 – 3:20

Oral Presentation:  I. V. Kozhevnikov, University of Liverpool, UK

“Heteropoly Acids as Catalysts for Hydrogenation of Carboxylic Acids:  Relation with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Partial Oxidation”

Break

3:40 – 4:00

Oral Presentation:  Thomas F. Jaramillo, Technical University of Denmark

“From Alloys to Bio-Mimetic Materials:  Searching for New Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysts”

4:00 – 4:20

Oral Presentation:  Bruce Gates, University of California, Davis, USA

“Tantalum Clusters Supported on SiO2: Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Catalysis of Alkane Conversion”

4:20 – 4:40

Oral Presentation:  Robert M. Rioux, Harvard University, USA

“Effect of Pt Cluster Size on the Oxidation of NO to NO2 in Excess Oxygen on Supported and Model Pt Catalysts”

4:40 – 5:00

Oral Presentation:  Sven Oscarsson, Mlardalen University, Sweden

“The Performance of a Biomimetic Oxidation Catalyst Immobilized on Gold and Silica Substrates”

 

                                      

Afternoon

Chair:  Steve Overbury

         Lecture Hall B

        106 Stanley Hall

2:00 – 2:20

Oral Presentation: Esther Sulman, Tver Technical University, Russia

Polymer-stabilized Metal Nanoparticles:  An Effective way for Integration of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis”

2:20 – 2:40

Oral Presentation: Atsushi Fukuoka, Hokkaido University, Japan

“Preferential Oxidation of CO Catalyzed by Pt Nanoparticles in Mesoporous Silica”

2:40 – 3:00

Oral Presentation: Carlos F. Sanz-Navarro, NTNU, Norway

“Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Binding of Metal Catalyst Nanoparticles to Carbon Nanostructures by Using ReaxFF”

3:00 – 3:20

Oral Presentation: Agnes Mastalir, University of Szeged, Hungary

“Liquid-phase Dispersion Measurement of Supported Palladium Catalysts by Liquid Chromatography”

Break

3:40 – 4:00

Oral Presentation:  Mohd Ambar Yarmo, Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia

“V2O5 Nanorod and Nanoparticles Preparation Using CTAB Micelle Solution”

4:00 – 4:20

Oral Presentation:  Yunjie Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

“In Situ Formation of Homogeneous Active Species for Hydroformylation Based on Heterogeneous Rh Catalyst”

4:20 – 4:40

Oral Presentation:  Gabor Laurenczy, EPFL, Lauanne, Switzerland

“Homogeneous Catalytic Cycles:  Carbon Dioxide/Hydrogen – Formic Acid Systems:  High Pressure H2 Production and CO2 Utilization

4:40 – 5:00

Oral Presentation:  Yousung Jung, California Inst. of Technology, USA

“Striking Acceleration of Rate of Organic Reaction on Water: A Theory


 

 

Friday, July 20, 2007

 

                                      

Morning

Chair:  Georg Held

            105 Stanley Hall

             Lecture Hall A

8:30 – 9:15

Plenary Lecture:  Christopher Hardacre, Queens University, Belfast, UK

“Ionic Liquid Mediated Homogeneously and Heterogeneously Catalysed Reactions”

9:15 – 9:50

Keynote Lecture:  Michael Bowker, Cardiff University, UK

“The Role of Mo in Selective Oxidation Catalysis”

Break

10:10 – 10:30

Oral Presentation:  Mizuki Tada, The University of Tokyo, Japan

“Active Structure and ReactionMechanism for Direct Phenol Synthesis from Benzene and O2 on a Highly Selective N-Interstitial Re-Cluster/HZSM-5 Catalyst

10:30 – 10:50

Oral Presentation:  Miquel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., USA

“Structure and Spectroscopy under Ambient Conditions of Pressure and Temperature:  Novel Techniques for Fundamental Studies in Catalysis

10:50 – 11:10

Oral Presentation:  Steven H. Overbury, Oak Ridge Nat. Laboratory, USA

“Synthesis, Size Dependence and Mechanistic Studies of Supported Au Catalysts”

11:15 – 11:30                                          

 

                                 Poster Awards

11:30 – 12:00

                      Summary and Conclusion

                    Sir Ronald Mason

 

 

Morning

Chair:  Imre Kiriicsi

               106 Stanley Hall

                 Lecture Hall B

10;10 – 10:30

Oral Presentation:  Matthias Koebel, EMPA Dubendorf, Switzerland

“Synchrotron Torr-pressure XPS Studies on 2D Pt Nanoparticle Array Cleaning for Model Catalysts”

10:30 – 10:50

Oral Presentation:  Thomas Bligaard, Technical University of Denmark

“Combining Computational Screening and Reactivity Trends for Alloy Catalyst Design”

10:50 – 11:10

Oral Presentation:  Hongbo Li, Los Alamos National Lab, USA

“Supported Organoiridium Catalysts for Alkane Dehydrogenation”

 

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