Combinatorial Chemistry in Heterogeneous Catalysis: A New Scientific Approach or “the King's New Clothes”?

✍ Scribed by Robert Schlögl

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 120 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(19980918)37:17<2333::aid-anie2333>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

The spectacular success in materials science of the application of combinatorial chemistry has raised the hope that it may eventually lead to a new scientific approach to catalyst development. This method is, within the constraints of heterogeneous catalysis, merely a potentially efficient tool to be used in rational catalyst development and should not be considered an independent novel strategy towards rational catalyst design.