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Santen, Rutger Anthony Van was born on May 28, 1945 in Langedijk, Holland, Netherlands. Son of Arie and Caroline (Teeling) VanSanten.
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to the Fundamental and Applied Catalysis Series Catalysis is important academically and industrially. It plays an essential role in the manufacture of a wide range of products, from gasoline and plastics to fertilizers and herbicides, which would otherwise be unobtainable or prohibitively expensive. There are few chemical-or oil-based material items in modem society that do not depend in some way on a catalytic stage in their manufacture. Apart from manu facturing processes, catalysis is finding other important and ever-increasing uses; for example, successful applications of catalysis in the control of pollution and its use in environmental control are certain to increase in the future. The commercial importance of catalysis and the diverse intellectual challenges of catalytic phenomena have stimulated study by a broad spectrum of scientists, including chemists, physicists, chemical engineers, and material scientists. Increas ing research activity over the years has brought deeper levels of understanding, and these have been associated with a continually growing amount of published material. As recently as sixty years ago, Rideal and Taylor could still treat the subject comprehensively in a single volume, but by the 1950s Emmett required six volumes, and no conventional multivolume text could now cover the whole of catalysis in any depth. In view of this situation, we felt there was a need for a collection of monographs, each one of which would deal at an advanced level with a selected topic, so as to build a catalysis reference library.
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(An integrated approach to the molecular theory of reactio...)
An integrated approach to the molecular theory of reaction mechanism in heterogeneous catalysis, largely based on the knowledge among the growing theoretical catalysis community over the past half century, and covering all major catalytic systems. The authors develop a general conceptual framework, including in-depth comparisons with enzyme catalysis, biomineralisation, organometallic and coordination chemistry. A chapter dedicated to molecular electrocatalysis addresses the molecular description of reactions at the liquid-solid interphase, while studies range from a quantum-chemical treatment of individual molecular states to dynamic Monte-Carlo simulations, including the full flexibility of the many-particle systems. Complexity in catalysis is explained in chapters on self-organization and self-assembly of catalysts, and other sections are devoted to evolutionary, combinatorial techniques as well as artificial chemistry.
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(to the Fundamental and Applied Catalysis Series Catalysis...)
to the Fundamental and Applied Catalysis Series Catalysis is important academically and industrially. It plays an essential role in the manufacture of a wide range of products, from gasoline and plastics to fertilizers and herbicides, which would otherwise be unobtainable or prohibitively expensive. There are few chemical-or oil-based material items in modem society that do not depend in some way on a catalytic stage in their manufacture. Apart from manu facturing processes, catalysis is finding other important and ever-increasing uses; for example, successful applications of catalysis in the control of pollution and its use in environmental control are certain to increase in the future. The commercial importance of catalysis and the diverse intellectual challenges of catalytic phenomena have stimulated study by a broad spectrum of scientists, including chemists, physicists, chemical engineers, and material scientists. Increas ing research activity over the years has brought deeper levels of understanding, and these have been associated with a continually growing amount of published material. As recently as sixty years ago, Rideal and Taylor could still treat the subject comprehensively in a single volume, but by the 1950s Emmett required six volumes, and no conventional multivolume text could now cover the whole of catalysis in any depth. In view of this situation, we felt there was a need for a collection of monographs, each one of which would deal at an advanced level with a selected topic, so as to build a catalysis reference library.
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Santen, Rutger Anthony Van was born on May 28, 1945 in Langedijk, Holland, Netherlands. Son of Arie and Caroline (Teeling) VanSanten.
Masters, University Leiden, 1968. Phil degree, University Leiden, 1971.
Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford (California) Research Institute, 1971-1972; research chemist, Shell Research, Netherlands, 1972-1982; supervisor, Shell Research, Netherlands, 1984-1987; supervisor, Shell Development Company, Texas, 1982-1984; professor extraordinarius, Eindhoven (The Netherlands) U. Technology, 1986-1987; professor, Eindhoven (The Netherlands) U. Technology, since 1988. Visiting scientist Free U. Amsterdam, 1977-1978. Director Schuit Institute Catalysis, since 1989, Netherlands Institute Catalysis, since 1992.
(An integrated approach to the molecular theory of reactio...)
(to the Fundamental and Applied Catalysis Series Catalysis...)
(to the Fundamental and Applied Catalysis Series Catalysis...)
(The molecular basis of surface chemical reactivity forms ...)
Member Royal Dutch Chemical Society (chairman 1987-1992, Golden medal 1982), Dutch Catalysis Federation (chairman 1988-1991), Chemical Research Council (chairman since 1994).
Married Marretje Carolina Schroten, September 20, 1968. Children: Marieke, Hanneke.