Workshop on fundamental research in homogeneous catalysis as related to U. S. energy problems, held at Stanford University, Stanford, California on December 4-6, 1974. Final report

Technical Report · Fri Dec 06 04:00:00 EST 1974

OSTI ID:7197243

Collman, J P; Halpern, J; Norton, J; Roth, J

The major objectives of the Workshop were to identify opportunities for the solution of energy problems by homogeneous catalysts and to formulate recommendations for fundamental research in this area that could accelerate these solutions. The Workshop recognized the following areas of research as particularly important, relatively neglected at present, and potentially fruitful: (1) The homogeneous catalytic activation of saturated hydrocarbons. (2) Selective oxidation of organic substances and the activation of oxygen, including electrode surface studies. (3) The reduction of carbon monoxide, especially by hydrogen, including studies on the mechanism of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and on homogeneously catalyzed analogs of the latter. (4) Studies on multi-metal catalyst systems, including polynuclear complexes as well as multi-function catalysts involving combinations of different metal ions. (5) Production of high energy substances such as hydrogen from water. (6) Catalytic complexes involving unusual metal environments. (GRA)

• Research Organization: Stanford Univ., Calif. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7197243
• Report Number(s): PB-240177
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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OXIDES
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