Layered Double Hydroxide-Based Catalytic Materials for Sustainable Processes
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2022) | Viewed by 47064
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Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; catalysis by metal oxides; semiconducting metal oxides; layered double hydroxides and related materials; catalytic oxidation
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Interests: base catalysts; fine chemicals synthesis; ionic liquids
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Dear Colleagues,
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs), also known as two-dimensional anionic clays, as well as the derived materials, including hybrids, nanocomposites, mixed oxides, and supported metals, have been highlighted as outstanding heterogeneous catalysts with unlimited applications in various processes involving both acid-base (addition, alkylation, acylation, decarboxylation, etc.) and redox (oxidation, reduction, dehydrogenation, etc.) mechanisms. This is mainly due to their flexibility in chemical composition allowing finely tuning the nature of the active sites and controlling the balance between them. Additionally, LDHs display a large anion exchange capacity and the possibility to modify their interlayer space, constraining the size and type of reactants entering in the interlamellar space. Further, their easy and economic synthesis, with high levels of purity and efficiency, both at laboratory and industrial scale, make LDH and their derived materials excellent solid catalysts. This Special Issue collects original research papers, reviews, and commentaries focused on the catalytic applications of these remarkable materials.
Prof. Dr. Ioan-Cezar Marcu
Dr. Octavian Dumitru Pavel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Layered double hydroxide
- LDH-based hierarchically structured catalysts
- LDH-supported catalysts
- Acid-base catalysis
- Redox catalysis
- Sustainable chemical processes
- Fine chemical synthesis
- Environmental catalysis
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