Selectivity in Oxidation Catalysis

2009 Spring Symposium

 
Robert Schlögl
Fritz-Haber-Insti­tut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Berlin, Ger­many


Abstract — The acti­va­tion of dioxy­gen into a selec­tive oxi­diz­ing species and the require­ment of acti­vat­ing C-H bonds lead to con­flict­ing struc­tures of active sites. Mate­r­i­al solu­tion of met­als and oxide sys­tems will be dis­cussed for the increas­ing­ly demand­ing cas­es of oxi­da­tion of methanol, eth­yl­ene and propane.

Speaker’s Biog­ra­phy — Robert Schlögl stud­ied chem­istry and com­plet­ed his PhD on graphite inter­ca­la­tion com­pounds at the Lud­wig Max­i­m­il­ians Uni­ver­si­ty in Munich (1982). After post­doc­tor­al stays at Cam­bridge and Basle he car­ried out his habil­i­ta­tion under the super­vi­sion of Pro­fes­sor Ertl at Fritz Haber Insti­tute in Berlin (1989). Lat­er he accept­ed the call for a Full Pro­fes­sor­ship of Inor­gan­ic Chem­istry at Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty. In 1994 he was appoint­ed his cur­rent posi­tion as Direc­tor at the Fritz Haber Insti­tute of the Max Planck Soci­ety in Berlin. His research activ­i­ties range from inter­fa­cial reac­tions of inor­gan­ic solids, het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis, spec­troscopy of sur­faces dur­ing chem­i­cal reac­tions, sol­id state reac­tions, acid-base chem­istry on sur­faces, car­bon chem­istry, chem­istry of oxide sys­tems to clus­ter chem­istry. Spe­cif­ic focus is on the inves­ti­ga­tion of het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts based upon inor­gan­ic solids with the aim to bridge exper­i­men­tal­ly the gap between sur­face sci­ence and chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing in the field of oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis. He is author of about 500 pub­li­ca­tions and reg­is­tered inven­tor of more than 20 patent fam­i­lies. He is a Fel­low of the Roy­al Soci­ety of Chem­istry and mem­ber of numer­ous inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions. His research activ­i­ties have been rec­og­nized with sev­er­al inter­na­tion­al awards.