Homogeneous Catalysis: Mechanisms and Industrial Applications -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Chemical Industry and Homogeneous Catalysis -- 1.1 Feedstocks, Fuels, and Catalysts -- 1.2 Crude Oil to Gasoline and Basic Building Blocks by Heterogeneous Catalysts -- 1.2.1 Cracking Reactions -- 1.2.2 Hydrodesulfurization Reactions -- 1.3 Basic Building Blocks to Downstream Products by Homogeneous Catalysis -- 1.4 Comparison among Different Types of Catalysis -- 1.5 Catalyst Recovery -- 1.6 Environmental Issues -- 1.6.1 Background -- 1.6.2 Biofuel, Ethanol, and Glycerol -- 1.6.3 Biodegradable Plastics -- 1.6.4 Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide -- Problems -- Bibliography -- Books -- Articles -- Chapter 2 Basic Chemical Concepts -- 2.1 Ligands -- 2.1.1 Types of Ligands -- 2.1.2 Donor and Acceptor Properties of Ligands -- 2.1.3 CO, R2C=CR2, other π-acids, and H- as Ligands -- 2.1.4 Phosphines and Related Ligands -- 2.1.5 Alkyl, Aryl, Alkylidene, and Related Ligands -- 2.1.6 Cyclopentadienyl, Allyl, and Related Ligands -- 2.1.7 Chiral Ligands -- 2.2 Metals -- 2.2.1 Oxidation State -- 2.2.2 Electron Counting -- 2.2.3 Coordinative Unsaturation -- 2.2.4 Lanthanides and Actinides -- 2.3 Important Reaction Types -- 2.3.1 Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination -- 2.3.2 Insertion and Elimination Reactions -- 2.3.3 Metallacycle Formation -- 2.3.4 Attack on a Coordinated Ligand -- 2.3.5 Activation of Alkanes -- 2.3.6 Activation of Dinitrogen -- 2.3.7 Activation of Dioxygen (O2) -- Problems -- Bibliography -- Books -- Articles -- Chapter 3 Methods of Investigation -- 3.1 Catalytic Cycle and Intermediates -- 3.2 Spectroscopic Studies -- 3.2.1 In Situ Spectroscopy -- 3.2.2 Infrared Spectroscopy -- 3.2.3 NMR Spectroscopy -- 3.2.4 Advanced NMR Spectroscopy -- 3.2.5 Other Spectroscopic Methods -- 3.3 Kinetic Studies -- 3.4 Model Compounds.

3.5 Computational Methods -- 3.6 Asymmetric Catalysis -- Problems -- Bibliography -- Books -- Articles -- Chapter 4 Carbonylation and Related Reactions -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Carbonylation and Manufacture of Acetic Acid -- 4.2.1 Cobalt Process -- 4.2.2 Rhodium Cycle -- 4.2.3 Iridium Process -- 4.2.4 Mechanistic Studies and Differences -- 4.3 Carbonylation of Other Alcohols -- 4.4 Carbonylation of Methyl Acetate -- 4.5 Carbonylation of Alkynes -- 4.6 Other Carbonylation and Hydrocarboxylation Reactions -- 4.7 C1 Chemistry -- 4.7.1 Water Gas Shift Reaction -- 4.7.2 Fischer-Tropsch Reactions -- 4.7.3 Utilization of CO2 -- 4.7.4 Polycarbonates from CO2 -- 4.8 Engineering Aspects -- Problems -- Bibliography -- Articles -- Patents -- Chapter 5 Hydrogenation and Other Hydrogen-Based Catalytic Reactions -- 5.1 Hydrogenation -- 5.1.1 Mechanisms and Catalytic Cycles -- 5.1.2 Asymmetric Hydrogenation -- 5.2 Hydroformylation -- 5.2.1 Ligands and Selectivity -- 5.2.2 Mechanistic Studies -- 5.2.3 Water-Soluble Phosphines and Catalyst Recovery -- 5.2.4 Other Methods for Catalyst Recovery -- 5.3 Other Hydroformylation Reactions -- 5.4 Asymmetric Hydroformylation -- 5.5 Hydrosilylation -- 5.6 Hydrocyanation -- 5.6.1 Catalysts and Mechanistic Studies -- 5.6.2 Asymmetric Hydrocyanation -- 5.7 Hydroamination -- Problems -- Bibliography -- Articles -- Patents -- Chapter 6 Polymerization and Selective Oligomerization of Alkenes -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 Polyethylene -- 6.1.2 Polypropylene -- 6.1.3 Polybutadiene -- 6.2 Early Catalysts for PE and PP -- 6.3 Modern Ziegler-Natta Catalyst -- 6.4 Mechanistic Studies -- 6.5 Single-Site Catalysts -- 6.5.1 Metallocenes and Methyl Aluminoxane -- 6.5.2 Nonmetallocene Catalysts -- 6.5.3 Mechanistic Studies -- 6.6 Ethylene Polymerization with Polar Comonomers -- 6.7 Polymers of Other Alkenes -- 6.8 Oligomerization of Ethylene.

6.8.1 Shell Higher Olefin Process -- 6.8.2 Mechanistic Studies and Metallacycles -- 6.9 Engineering Aspects -- Problems -- Bibliography -- Books -- Articles -- Patents -- Chapter 7 Selective C-C Bond-Forming Reactions with Alkenes -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Di-, Tri-, Tetramerization and Codimerization Reactions -- 7.2.1 Dimerization of Ethylene and Propylene -- 7.2.2 Tri- and Tetramerization of Ethylene -- 7.2.3 Mechanistic Studies -- 7.2.4 Di- and Trimerization of Butadiene -- 7.2.5 Codimerization of Butadiene and Ethylene -- 7.3 Metathesis Reactions -- 7.3.1 Types of Metathesis -- 7.3.2 Mechanistic Studies -- 7.3.3 Applications of Metathesis -- 7.4 Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions -- 7.4.1 Mechanistic Studies -- 7.4.2 Applications -- 7.5 Metal-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation and Cycloaddition -- 7.5.1 Mechanisms -- 7.5.2 Applications -- Problems -- Bibliography -- Books -- Articles -- Patents -- Chapter 8 Oxidation -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Wacker Oxidation -- 8.2.1 Background Chemistry -- 8.2.2 Catalytic Cycle and Mechanism -- 8.3 Metal-Catalyzed Liquid-Phase Auto-oxidation -- 8.3.1 Mechanism of Auto-oxidation -- 8.3.2 Special Features of Cyclohexane and p-Xylene Oxidations -- 8.4 Polymers from Auto-oxidation Products -- 8.5 Selective Oxidations -- 8.5.1 Oxidations of Alcohols -- 8.5.2 Oxidations of Alkenes -- 8.5.3 Asymmetric Epoxidation and Kinetic Resolution -- 8.5.4 Asymmetric Alkene Dihydroxylations -- 8.5.5 Oxidation of Methane -- 8.6 Engineering and Safety Considerations -- Problems -- Bibliography -- Books -- Articles -- Patents -- Index -- End User License Agreement.