Role of microwaves in heterogeneous catalytic systems

Specific Enhancement of Activity of Carbon-supported Single-site Co Catalyst in the Microwave-assisted Solvent-free Aerobic Oxidation

“…These results indicated that AC was heated selectively by microwave, as is known in the past reports. 5,20 Under conventional heating, the Co(salen) complex and Co/AC catalysts treated at different temperatures showed nearly the same activities, indicating that this reaction was structure-insensitive for Co species on carbon supports. When using microwave heating, the structureactivity relationship was markedly different from that of conventional heating.…”

In situ temperature measurements in microwave-heated gas-solid catalytic systems. Detection of hot spots and solid-fluid temperature gradients in the ethylene epoxidation reaction

“…The field of chemical reactions under microwave (MW) heating has since expanded rapidly, with a myriad of potential applications that, in many cases, can be scaled up 3 . Of particular interest are microwave-assisted heterogeneous catalytic processes, both in liquid and gas phase, where the catalyst itself is preferentially heated by MW [4][5][6][7] . In this case, heat can be supplied directly to the catalyst, with a huge potential regarding energy savings.…”

Pd/C Catalysis under Microwave Dielectric Heating

“…Though the use of Pd/C in metal catalyzed reactions [9] and the use of MWs in heterogeneous catalyzed transformations have been recently reviewed [10], there are no reports covering the literature on the combination of Pd/C with MWs. We decided to fill this gap with this review.…”