Trevor J. Dines

Bio: Trevor J. Dines is an academic researcher from University of Dundee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Raman spectroscopy & Adsorption. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 99 publications receiving 1522 citations. Previous affiliations of Trevor J. Dines include University of Greenwich.

On the nature of the sulfur chromophores in ultramarine blue, green, violet, and pink and of the selenium chromophore in ultramarine selenium: characterization of radical anions by electronic and resonance Raman spectroscopy and the determination of their excited-state geometries

Abstract: Les resultats montrent que le reseau outremer est une matrice extremement utile pour etudier des radicaux mineraux instables

Infrared and Raman study of the adsorption of NH3, pyridine, NO and NO2 on anatase

Abstract: An anatase precursor of V2O5/TiO2 catalysts contains nitrate and sulphate impurities, the former being destroyed by calcination at 673 K but surface sulphate remaining after calcination at 723 K. Two types of Lewisacidic site were distinguished by ammonia and pyridine adsorption. Slight surface Bronsted acidity was considerably enhanced by deliberate doping with additional surface sulphate. Both nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide were adsorbed to form bridged and bidentate nitrato species, with monodentate nitrate also formed from the dioxide. Ammonia did not react with the nitrogen oxides on the anatase surface. Co-adsorption was noncompetitive, the two gases being adsorbed at different surface sites.

Raman spectroscopic study of supported chromium(vi) oxide catalysts

Abstract: Raman spectroscopy has been used to characterise Cr(VI) oxide species supported on the surfaces of SiO2, Al2O3, SiO2–Al2O3 and TiO2, as a function of Cr loading and calcination temperature. The interpretation of the spectra has been facilitated by Lorentzian band deconvolution and ab initio calculations employing the hybrid SCF-DFT method B3-LYP, in conjunction with the effective core potential LanL2DZ basis set. These calculations have enabled the elucidation of the geometries of surface chromate species by comparison with reference Cr(VI) compounds, and also detailed force constant calculations and vibrational assignments in terms of potential energy distributions. For all of the surface chromate(VI) species only Raman bands due to stretching vibrations involving CrO bonds are observed. Other chromate vibrations are predicted to be strongly mixed with vibrational coordinates of the support, giving rise to composite modes which have much lower Raman intensity.

Raman spectroscopic study of the Pt–CeO2 interaction in the Pt/Al2O3–CeO2 catalyst

Abstract: Raman spectra have been obtained from a series of Pt/Al2O3 catalysts containing from 0 to 20% CeO2, and a Pt/CeO2 catalyst, prepared by sol–gel processing. Spectra were recorded following calcination of the catalyst precursors at various temperatures up to 600 °C and compared with thermogravimetric data. The results clearly present evidence for a strong interaction between Pt and CeO2. The surface mixed oxide species persists in an oxidising environment up to 600 °C and in a reducing environment up to 170 °C.

Chemical Routes for the Transformation of Biomass into Chemicals

Abstract: 3.2.3. Hydroformylation 2467 3.2.4. Dimerization 2468 3.2.5. Oxidative Cleavage and Ozonolysis 2469 3.2.6. Metathesis 2470 4. Terpenes 2472 4.1. Pinene 2472 4.1.1. Isomerization: R-Pinene 2472 4.1.2. Epoxidation of R-Pinene 2475 4.1.3. Isomerization of R-Pinene Oxide 2477 4.1.4. Hydration of R-Pinene: R-Terpineol 2478 4.1.5. Dehydroisomerization 2479 4.2. Limonene 2480 4.2.1. Isomerization 2480 4.2.2. Epoxidation: Limonene Oxide 2480 4.2.3. Isomerization of Limonene Oxide 2481 4.2.4. Dehydroisomerization of Limonene and Terpenes To Produce Cymene 2481

Catalytic Properties of Ceria and CeO2-Containing Materials

Abstract: Over the past several years, cerium oxide and CeO2-containing materials have come under intense scrutiny as catalysts and as structural and electronic promoters of heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Recent developments regarding the characterization of ceria and CeO2-containing catalysts are critically reviewed with a special focus towards catalyst interaction with small molecules such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide, oxygen, and nitric oxide. Relevant catalytic and technological applications such as the use of ceria in automotive exhaust emission control and in the formulation of SO x reduction catalysts is described. A survey of the use of CeO2-containing materials as oxidation and reduction catalysts is also presented.

Chemical and mechanistic aspects of the selective catalytic reduction of NOx by ammonia over oxide catalysts: A review

Abstract: The open literature concerning chemical and mechanistic aspects of the selective catalytic reduction of NO by ammonia (SCR process) on metal oxide catalysts is reviewed. Catalytic systems based on supported V2O5 (including the industrial TiO2-supported V2O5–WO3 and/or V2O5–MoO3 catalysts) and catalysts containing Fe2O3, CuO, MnOx and CrOx are considered. The results of spectroscopic studies of the adsorbed surface species, adsorption–desorption measurements, flow reactor and kinetic experiments are analyzed. The proposed reaction mechanisms are described and critically discussed. Points of convergence and of disagreement are underlined.

Density functional theory for transition metals and transition metal chemistry

Abstract: We introduce density functional theory and review recent progress in its application to transition metal chemistry. Topics covered include local, meta, hybrid, hybrid meta, and range-separated functionals, band theory, software, validation tests, and applications to spin states, magnetic exchange coupling, spectra, structure, reactivity, and catalysis, including molecules, clusters, nanoparticles, surfaces, and solids.

Identification of Neutral and Charged N x O y Surface Species by IR Spectroscopy

Abstract: The infrared spectral performance of the N x O y species observed on oxide surfaces [N2O, NO−, NO, (NO)2, N2O3, NO+, NO2 − (different nitro and nitrito anions), NO2, N2O4, N2O5, NO2, and NO3 − (bridged, bidentate, and monodentate nitrates)] is considered. The spectra of related compounds (N2, H-, and C-containing nitrogen oxo species, C─N species, NH x species) are also briefly discussed. Some guidelines for spectral identification of N x O y adspecies are proposed and the transformation of the nitrogen oxo species on catalyst surfaces are regarded.