The need to improve both the efficiency and environmental acceptability of industrial processes is driving the development of heterogeneous catalysts across the chemical industry, including commodity, specialty and fine chemicals and in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. Drawing on international research, Supported Catalysts and their Applications discusses aspects of the design, synthesis and application of solid supported reagents and catalysts, including supported reagents for multi-step organic synthesis; selectivity in oxidation catalysis; mesoporous molecular sieve catalysts; and the use of Zeolite Beta in organic reactions. In addition, the two discrete areas of heterogeneous catalysis (inorganic oxide materials and polymer-based catalysts) that were developing in parallel are now shown to be converging, which will be of great benefit to the whole field. Providing a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in this fast-moving field, this book will be welcomed by industrialists and researchers, particularly in the agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals industries.

Selectivity in Oxidation Catalysis; The Development and Application of Supported Reagents for Multi-step Organic Synthesis; Mesoporous Molecular Sieve Catalysts: Relationships between Reactivity and Long Range Structural Order/Disorder; Zeolite Beta and Its Uses in Organic Reactions; Chiral Mesoporous Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials in Enantioselective Catalysis; Immobilised Lewis Acids and Their Use in Organic Chemistry; Influence of Zeolite Composition on Catalytic Activity; Synthesis of Soluble Libraries of Macrocycles from Polymers: Investigations of Some Possible Screening Methods Using Polymers; Immobilised Catalysts and Their Use in the Synthesis of Fine and Intermediate Chemicals; Catalytic Aziridination and Epoxidation of Alkenes Using Modified Microporous and Mesoporous Materials; Enantioselective Alkylation of Benzaldehyde by Diethylzinc with (-)-Ephedrine Supported on MTS. A New Class of More Efficient Catalysts; Supported Perfluoroalkanedisulphonic Acids as Catalysts in Isobutane Alkylation; Polymer Immobilised TEMPO (PIPO): An Efficient Catalytic System for Environmentally Benign Oxidation of Alcohols; The Preparation and Functionalisation of (Vinyl)Polystyrene PolyHIPE. Short Routes to Binding Functional Groups Through A Dimethylene Spacer; Polynitrogen Strong Bases as Immobilized Catalysts; Selective Synthesis of 2-Acetyl-6-methoxynaphthalene Over HBEA Zeolite; The Influence of 'Superacidic' Modification on ZrO₂ and Fe₂O₃ Catalysts for Methane Combustion; Structure and Reactivity of Polymer-supported Carbonylation Catalysts; An Original Behaviour of Copper(II)-exchanged Y Faujasite in the Ruff Oxidative Degradation of Calcium Gluconate; Polymer-bound Organometallic Complexes as Catalysts for Use in Organic Synthesis; Dehydroisomerisation of n-Butane into Isobutene Over Ga-Containing Zeolite Catalysts; Guanidine Catalysts Supported on Silica and Micelle Templated Silicas. New Basic Catalysts for Organic Chemistry; Organic Modification of Hexagonal Mesoporous Silica; Towards Phthalocyanine Network Polymers for Heterogeneous Catalysis; Suzuki Coupling Using Pd(0) and KF/Al₂O₃; Unusual Regioselectivities Observed in the Oligomerization of Propene on Nickel(II) Ion-exchanged Silica-Alumina Catalysts; Selectivity through the Use of Heterogeneous Catalysts; Novel Lewis-acidic Catalysts by Immobilisation of Ionic Liquids; Heterogeneous Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Trifluoromethyl Ketones; Structural and Reactive Properties of Supported Transition Metal Triflates; Soluble Fluoropolymer Catalysts for Hydroformylation of Olefins in Fluorous Phases and Supercritical CO₂; Subject Index.