Abstract
Chemical processes, both in the laboratory and industrial sectors, involve designing products to meet human needs. However, during these processes, more environmental problems are created due to the generation of non-useful by-products and toxic effluents that are harmful to the biosphere. Also, these chemical processes are performed under harsh reaction conditions. The conventional homogeneous catalysts often used suffer deactivation at high temperatures, and the separation problem makes reusability, recycling, and recovery difficult. Hence, for sustainable chemical processes, novel heterogeneous mesoporous transition metal oxide catalysts were designed. The catalysts were utilized in redox and acetalization conversions, both as active phase and nanoparticle support...
Ph.D. (Chemistry)