Well tailored metal catalysts are catalysts of the new generation
resulting from scientific development at the boundary between
homogeneous and hetero- geneous chemistry. The main factors involved in
making tailored metal catalysts are not those of traditional
impregnation in which the chemistry is in general unknown and
ill-defined, or of simple ion exchange which involves long-range forces
with little control on the local structure through definite and special
bond direction. Tailored Metal Catalysts thus has a rather different
emphasis from normal review publications in the field of catalysis. Here
we concentrate more on the distinct surface chemistry and catalytic
properties of important established materials with well-characterized
active structures or precursors, although at the same time providing a
systematic presentation of relevant data. Many pioneering works have
been undertaken in the field of tailored metal catalysts since the early
research on polymer-attached homogeneous metal complexes by the British
Petroleum Company Ltd. and the Mobil Oil Corpora- tion around 1969;
transition metal complexes attached on polymers by Grubbs (1971),
Heinemann (1971), Manassen (1971), Pittman (1971), Bursian et al.
(1972), Kagan (1973), Bailar (1974); transition metal complexes attached
on inorganic oxides by Allum et al. (1972), Ballard (1973), Candlin and
Thomas (1974), Murrell (1974), Yermakov (1974); metal carbonyls/polymers
by Moffat (1970); metal carbonyls/inorganic oxides by Parkyns (1965),
Davie et al. (1969), Banks et al. (1969), Howe (1973), Burwell (1975);
metal carbonyl clusters/ polymers by Colhnan (1972); metal carbonyl
clusters/inorganic oxides by Robertson and Webb (1974), Anderson (1974),
Smith et al. (1975).
