chapter 1 Section I. Symposium on Catalytic Hydrogenation -- chapter a. Hydrogenation on Raney-Type Catalysts -- chapter 1 2004 Murray Raney Award: Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Organic Compounds at Raney Metal Electrodes: Scope and Limitations / chapter 2 Low Pressure Slurry Hydrogenation Process for the Production of Dimethylaminopropylamine Using Sponge Nickel Catalyst / chapter 3 The Conversion of Ethanolamine to Glycine Salt Over Skeletal Copper Catalysts / chapter 4 Hydrogenation Catalysis in a Nylon Recycle Process / chapter 5 Hydrogenation of Dodecanenitrile Over Raney Type and Supported Group VIII Metal Catalysts and Effect of Metal on Selectivity / chapter Department of Organic Catalysis, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary born Anchored and Supported Hydrogenation Catalysts -- chapter 6 Highly Efficient Metal Catalysts Supported on Activated Carbon Cloths / chapter 7 Anchored Wilkinson’s Catalyst / chapter 8 Carbon Supported Anchored Homogeneous Catalysts / chapter 9 Catalytic Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde on Pt/Carbon Catalysts: The Effects of Metal Location, and Dispersion on Activity and Selectivity / chapter 10 Para-substituted Aniline Hydrogenation Over Rhodium Catalysts: Metal Crystallite Size and Catalyst Pore Size Effects Department of Chemistry, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K / chapter 11 Reductive Alkylation During Nitrobenzene Hydrogenation Over Copper/Silica -- chapter 12 Hydrogenolysis of Butyl Acetate to Butanol over Naphtha Reforming Type Catalysts in Conventional and High Throughput Slurry Phase Reactors / chapter 13 New Ways for the Full Hydrogenation of Quinoline in Mild Conditions -- chapter 14 Some Recent Developments in Heterogeneous Hydrogenation Catalysts for Organic Synthesis / chapter c Hydrogenation of Interesting Substrates and Renewable Sources -- chapter 15 Hydrogenation of Nitrile Butadiene Rubber Catalyzed by [Ir(COD)py(PCy3)]PF6 / chapter 16 Catalytic Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Lignin Model Compounds Using In-Situ, Water-Soluble Ru/P(CH2OH)3 Systems -- chapter 17 Catalytic Preparation of Pyrrolidones from Renewable Resources Physical Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, / chapter 18 Hydrogenation of Glutamic Acid to Value Added Products / chapter 19 Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of 5-Carbon Sugar Alcohols -- chapter 2 Section II. Symposium on Novel Concepts and Approaches to Catalysis of Organic Reactions -- chapter 20 Combinatorial Approaches for New Catalyst Discovery: The First Homogeneous Catalysts Derived from Combinatorial Technologies for a Variety of Cross-Coupling Reactions

chapter 21 High Throughput Experiments in Design and Optimization of Catalytic Package for Direct Synthesis of Diphenylcarbonate / chapter 22 Rapid Optimization of Hydrogenation Process Variables by Combining Experimental Design and Parallel Reactors / chapter 23 Design and Parallel Synthesis of New Oxidative Dehydrogenation Catalysts / chapter 24 Nanocluster-based Cross-coupling Catalysts: A High-Throughput Approach / chapter van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands born General Papers -- chapter 25 Do You Need A Transition Metal for Biaryl Synthesis? Process Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-0191 / chapter 26 Enzyme-like Acceleration in Catalytic Anti-Markovnikov Hydration of Alkynes to Aldehydes / chapter 27 An Enzyme-like Mechanism Involving Bifunctional Ru Catalysts / chapter 28 Activation of Dendrimer Encapsulated Pt Nanoparticles for Heterogeneous Catalysts / chapter 29 Avada—a New Green Process for the Production of Ethyl Acetate / chapter 30 A Catalytic Distillation Process for the One Step Synthesis of Methyl Isobutyl Ketone from Acetone: Liquid Phase Kinetics of the Hydrogenation of Mesityl Oxide / chapter 31 A Strategy for the Preparation of Isolated Organometallic Catalysts on Silica Supports – Towards Single-Site Solid Catalysts / chapter 32 Ring Opening of Naphthenes for Clean Diesel Fuel Production -- chapter 33 The Use of Copper Catalysts in the Hydrogen Transfer Reduction of 4-Tert- butylcyclohexanone -- chapter 34 The Effect of Ultrasound on the Isomerization versus Reduction Reaction Pathways in the Hydrogenation of 3-Buten-2-ol and 1,4-Pentadien-3-ol on Pd-Black -- chapter 35 Lessons Learned: Batch Processing, Scaleup from Laboratory to Plant / chapter 3 Section III. Symposium on Acid-Base Catalysis -- chapter 36 Improved Solid-Acid Catalysis for Sustainable, High 2-Phenyl, LAB Production / chapter 37 Recent Advances in Thermally Stable Resins for Olefin Hydration / chapter 38 Enhancement of Regioselectivity in the Gas-phase Methylation of m-Cresol with Multifunctional Heterogeneous Catalysts / chapter 39 Hydroxymethylation of 2-Methoxyphenol with Formaldehyde to Yield Vanillic Alcohols: A Comparison Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Acid Catalysis / chapter 40 The Aldol Condensation of Acetone Over a CsOH/SiO2 Solid Base Catalyst / chapter 41 Solid Acid Catalysed Esterification of Amino Acids and Other Bio-Based Acids / chapter 42 One Pot Transformation of Geraniol into Citronellol and Menthol Over Cu/Al2O3 Nicoletta Ravasio,a Achille Fusi,b Rinaldo Psaro,a and Federica Zaccheriac aCNR-ISTM, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano, Italy bDip.Chimica Inorganica, Metallorganica e Analitica, Università di Milano, Via cConsorzio INSTM, via B. Varchi 59, I-50132 Firenze, Italy / chapter 43 Investigation of Chlorine Substitution Effects in the Claisen-Schmidt Condensation of 2΄-hydroxyacetophenone with Chlorobenzaldehydes Over MgO / chapter 4 Section IV. Symposium on Catalytic Oxidation -- chapter 44 The Effect of Single Metal Variation in Mo-V-Nb-W/Al2O3 System on Propane Selective Oxidation / chapter 45 Partial Oxidation of Propylene Over Supported Rhodium Catalysts / chapter 46 The Effect of Bismuth Promotion on the Selective Oxidation of Alcohols Using Platinum Catalysts

chapter 47 Preparation and Activity of a V-Ti/Silica Catalyst for Olefin Epoxidation -- chapter 48 Aerobic Formaldehyde Oxidation Under Mild Conditions Mediated by Ce- Containing Polyoxometalates †Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Lavrentieva 5, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia / chapter 5 Section V. Symposium on Catalysis in Organic Synthesis -- chapter 49 2004 Paul N. Rylander Award: Palladium-Catalyzed Annulation and Migration Reactions / chapter 50 New Palladium-Catalysed Processes for the Synthesis of Selectively Substituted Aromatics / chapter 51 O-Acylphosphites: New and Promising Ligands for Isomerizing Hydroformylation -- chapter 52 The Synthesis of Carbamate from the Reductive Carbonylation of Nitrobenzene Over Pd-based Catalysts Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325- / chapter 53 Microwave Synthesis in the Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling Reaction with Pd/C Catalysts / chapter born Deprotection -- chapter 54 Improved Catalyst for the Removal of Carbobenzyloxy Protective Groups / chapter 55 The Effect of N-containing Modifiers on the Deprotection of a Carbobenzyloxy Protected Amino Acid / chapter 56 Selective Debenzylation in the Presence of Aromatic Chlorine on Pd/C Catalysts Effects of Catalyst Types and Reaction Kinetics -- chapter c Asymmetric Catalysis -- chapter 57 A Comparison Between the Homogeneous and the Anchored Rhodium Skewphos Catalyst -- chapter 58 Asymmetric Heck Reactions Using Dipeptido Phosphinite Metal Complexes -- chapter 59 Enantioselective Hydrogenations of Exo- and Endocyclic C=C Double Bond with Highly Mesoporous Carbon Supported Pd -- chapter 60 Influence of Achiral Tertiary Amines on the Enantioselective Hydrogenation of alpha,beta-diketones Over Cinchonidine-Pt/Al2O3 Catalyst -- chapter 61 Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Diketones on Pt Supported Catalysts -- chapter 62 Enantioselective Hydrogenation of alph,beta-Unsaturated Acids or Esters -- chapter 63 The Effects of Pt/Al2O3 Structure and Stability on the O-Methyl-10,11-dihydrocinchonidine Modified Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Activated Ketones.