Sophie Hermans and Thierry Visart de Bocarmé (eds.): Atomically-Precise Methods for Synthesis of Solid Catalysts

Abstract

indeed delivered a relatively comprehensive, well organized survey of state of the art methods to synthesize (primarily) metal catalysts. The sequencing of the material brought to my mind the classic review of the late, great Jim Schwarz, ‘‘Methods for Preparation of Catalytic Materials’’ (Chem. Rev. 95, 1995, 477) in which ‘‘3 dimensional chemistry’’ or synthesis of metal particles in the solution phase, was distinguished from ‘‘2 dimensional chemistry’’ in which metal is deposited and nanoparticles are formed on the support surface. In fact, the material swung back and forth between surface deposition and bulk formation techniques in something of a conical helix as depicted in the figure below. A clever unifying element is that as the chapter numbers increase, the catalysts grow in size and scale.