Palkovits, R.; von Malotki, C.; Baumgarten, M.; Müllen, K.; Baltes, C.; Antonietti, M.; Kuhn, P.; Weber, J.; Thomas, A.; Schüth, F. Development of Molecular and Solid Catalysts for the Direct Low-Temperature Oxidation of Methane to Methanol. ChemSusChem2010, 3, 277–282.
Baltes, C.; Vukojević, S.; Schüth, F. Correlations between Synthesis, Precursor, and Catalyst Structure and Activity of a Large Set of CuO/ZnO/Al₂O₃ Catalysts for Methanol Synthesis. Journal of Catalysis2008, 258, 334–344.
Olejnik, S.; Baltes, C.; Muhler, M.; Schüth, F. Parallelized N₂O Frontal Chromatography for the Fast Determination of Copper Surface Areas. Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry2008, 10, 387–390.
Rohe, B.; Weiss, R.; Vukojević, S.; Baltes, C.; Muhler, M.; Tausch, M.; Epple, M. CuO/ZnO Nanoparticles in a Matrix of Amorphous Silica as High-Surface Precursors for Methanol Synthesis. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry2007, 1723–1727.
Schunk, S. A.; Baltes, C.; Sundermann, A. Exploring Structure Activity Relationships in the Acetoxylation of Small Olefins. Catalysis Today2006, 117, 304–310.
Weiss, R.; Vukojevic, S.; Baltes, C.; d'Alnoncourt, R. N.; Muhler, M.; Epple, M. Copper/Zinc L-Tartrates: Mixed Crystals and Thermolysis to a Mixture of Copper Oxide and Zinc Oxide that is Catalytically Active in Methanol Synthesis. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry2006, 4782–4786.
Schunk, A.; Baltes, C.; Klein, J. How High Throughput Technology Can Facilitate Better Hydrocarbon Processing. Oil, Gas (Hamburg, Ger.)2005, 31, 77–82.
Baltes, C. Hochdurchsatz-Untersuchungen der Synthese/Struktur/Aktivitäts-Beziehungen bei Cu/ZnO/Al2O3-Katalysatoren für die Methanolsynthese. PhD Thesis, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 2007.
To be able to exploit the advantages of elements and their molecular compounds in a targeted manner, chemists have to develop a fundamental understanding of their properties. In the case of the element bismuth, a team from the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung has now taken an important step.
Chemists at the institute do not always work in the lab, sometimes mainly on the computer - like Xin Gui from the Department of Molecular Theory and Spectroscopy.
The Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung is delighted about the great response to the work of its scientists - for example Prof. Frank Neese, Director of the Department of Molecular Theory and Spectroscopy.