Table of Contents

Section 1-Lectures.- Challenges and Strategies for the Implementation of Combinatorial Methods and High Throughput Testing in Heterogeneous Catalysis.- Problems and Challenges About Accelerated Testing of the Catalytic Activity of Catalysts.- Mass Transfer Limitations: A Bottleneck for High Throughput Screening in Multiphase Catalysis?.- Combinatorial Methodology and its Experimental Validation by Parallel Synthesis, Testing And Characterization of Solid Catalytic Materials.- The Combinatorial Approach for Heterogeneous Catalysis: a Challenge for Academic Research.- An Evolutionary Strategy for the Design and Evaluation of High- Throughput Experiments.- Organometallic Combinatorial Chemistry.- Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Development and Optimisation of Light Paraffin Isomerisation Catalysts.- Serial and Parallel Ways to Enhance and Accelerate Catalyst Testing.- Rapid Catalyst Testing in The Boreskov Institute of Catalysis.- Analysis and Modelling of Multi-Site Acid Catalysts.- Combinatorial and High Throughput Approaches in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Reality or Illusion.- Ultrafast Gas Chromatography.- SECTION 2—Communications.- Parallel Catalytic Synthesis of Phosphines and Related Ligands.- Mixed Oxide Catalysts for Oxidation of Propane to Acrylic Acid: a Method for the Preparation of Realistic Catalyst Libraries and Their Quantitative Assessment.- High Throughput Testing of Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of Carbon Monoxide to Ethanol.- Transformation of Short Chain n-Alkanes on Dodecatungstophosphoric Acid and its Cesium Salts.- Complete Catalytic Oxidation of Methane and Ethane over Supported Platinum, Palladium and Manganese Oxide Catalysts.- Rational Catalyst Selection and Optimization Versus Combinatorial? Case Study: Hydrogenolysys of Ethyl Laurateto 1-Dodecanol on Ru(Rh)-Sn(Re)/?-Al2o3 Catalysts.- Studies on the Ultrasonic Enhancement of the Catalytic Activity in the Hydrogenation of Citral.- Future Trends in the Worldwide Oil Refining Industry.- Catalyst Preparation and Testing for Catalytic Combustion of Chloromethanes.- Impulse Oscillation Model for Accelerated Catalyst Design.- Catalytic Oxidation of BINAP on (BINAp)Rh(co)cl.- Catalysts for Wastewater Treatment.- The Routes of Deep Oxidation Reactions on the CuCl2/Al203 Catalysts in the Ethylene Oxychlorination Process.- The Catalytic Dehydrochlorination of Polychloroethanes in a Gas Phase.- The Bimetallic Co-Containing Supported on Alumina Catalysts in the Synthesis on the Base of Carbon Oxides.- Theoretical Investigations of Mo Catalysts in Olefin Metathesis.- Differential Thermal Analysis and Thermal Gravimetry as Fast Methods to Test Catalytic Oxidation of Carbon Particulates.- Aniline Methylation over Modified Micro- and Mesoporous Catalysts.- Live Catalysis.- SECTION 3—Workshop.- Accelerated Catalyst Preparation and Characterisation.- Methods and Standards of Accelerated Catalyst Testing.- SECTION 4—Conclusions.- Principles and Methods for Accelerated Catalyst Design, Preparation, Testing, and Development: Conclusions of the NATO Advanced Study Institute.- Participants.- Author Index.