Nanoparticles and Catalysis

- Transition-metal Nanoparticles in Catalysis: From Historical Background to the State of the Art

- Surfactant-stabilized Nanoparticles as Catalyst Precursors - Scientific Basis, Recent Developments and an Outlook

- Nanoparticle-catalysts Based on Nanostructured Polymers

- PAMAM-dendrimer Templated Catalysts

- Aerogel-supported Nanoparticles in Catalysis

- Transition-metal Catalysis in Imidazolium Ionic Liquids

- Carbon and Silicon Nanotubes-containing Catalysis

- Size-selective Synthesis of Nanostructured Metal- and Metal-oxide Colloids and their Use as Catalysts

- Multimetallic Nanoparticles Prepared by Redox Processes Applied in Catalysis

- The Role of Palladium Nanoparticles as Catalysts for Carbon-carbon Coupling Reactions

- Rhodium and Ruthenium Nanoparticles in Catalysis

- Supported Gold Nanoparticle as Oxidation Catalysts

- Gold Nanoparticle Catalyzed Oxidation in Organic Chemistry

- AuNP-catalyzed Propene Epoxidation by Dioxygen and Dihydrogen

- Gold Nanoparticles: Recent Advances in CO Oxidation

- NO Heterogeneous Catalysis Viewed from the Angle of Nanoparticles

- Hydrocarbon Catalytic Reactivity of Supported Nanometallic Particles

- Surface Organometallic Chemistry on Metallic NPs: Synthesis, Characterization and Application in Catalysis

Didier Astruc was a full professor at the Universities Bordeaux I and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He studied in Rennes, carried out his post-doc at MIT with Nobel prizewinner R. R. Schrock, and then took up a post at the CNRS before moving to Bordeaux. He was awarded the prize of the Coordination Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society, the Humboldt Prize and the Le Bel Prize. Professor Astruc is an experienced author and editor of books in the field of organometallic chemistry.

"I strongly recommend this book to any researcher entering the interdisciplinary world of catalytic metal NP s. There are many fine books on the subjects of nanotechnology and catalysis, but none addresses metal NP s and catalysis as directly, comprehensively, and usefully as Astruc s book." ( Angewandte Chemie , September 28, 2008)