1. Foreword

   • Makoto Misono
   • Tomoyuki Inui
   • Yoshio Ono

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2. Recent progress in surface scientific approaches to oxide catalysis

   • Yasuhiro Iwasawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 16

3. Recent advances in liquid-phase organic reactions using heteropolyacid and clay

   • Y. Izumi
   • K. Urabe
   • M. Onaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 23

4. Single-step synthesis of acetic acid (methyl acetate) from methanol alone by Ru(II)-Sn(II) hetero-bimetallic catalysts

   • Sumio Shinoda
   • Takeshi Ohnishi
   • Tetsu Yamakawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 34

5. Catalytic addition of C-H bonds to multiple bonds with the aid of ruthenium complexes

   • Shinji Murai
   • Naoto Chatani
   • Fumitoshi Kakiuchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 51

6. Cooperation of catalytic species for the selective reduction of nitrogen monoxide with hydrocarbons

   • Hideaki Hamada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 60

7. Novel catalysis of gold deposited on metal oxides

   • Masatake Haruta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 73

8. Dimethyl carbonate synthesis and other oxidative reactions using alkyl nitrites

   • Tokuo Matsuzaki
   • Asumaru Nakamura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 88

9. Novel catalysts for syndiospecific polymerization of styrene

   • Norio Tomotsu
   • Nobuhide Ishihara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 110

10. Recent advances in automobile exhaust catalyst

    • Shin'ichi Matsumoto

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11. Recent developments of chemical processes and catalysts in Japan

    • Akio Mitsutani

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12. Recent progress on olefin polymerization catalysts

    • Norio Kashiwa
    • Jun-ichi Imuta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 142

13. Recent studies of hydrotreating catalysts in Japan

    • Hiromi Ozaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 155

14. The catalyst industry of Japan

    • Itsuo Iida

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 163

15. Catalysis research at RITE

    • K. Tabata
    • T. Watanabe

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