The specific research interests in the David Jackson research group lie in six overlapping areas, i) metal catalysed hydrogenation, ii) heterogeneous catalysis in fine chemicals synthesis, iii) catalyst activation and catalyst deactivation, iv) dehydrogenation, v) adsorption, and vi) base catalysis. All of which fall within the concepts of the Catalysis Research Centre set up at Glasgow.

Begley, L.C., Kakanskas, K.J., Monaghan, A., and Jackson, S.D. (2012) Effect of molecular structure on the hydrogenation and isomerisation of propenylbenzene isomers. Catalysis Science and Technology, 2(6), p. 1287. (doi:10.1039/C2CY20105D) Bilal, M., and Jackson, S.D. (2012) Steam reforming of ethanol at medium pressure over Ru/Al2O3: effect of temperature and catalyst deactivation. Catalysis Science and Technology, 2(10), pp. 2043-2051. (doi:10.1039/C2CY20267K) Teschner, D., Borsodi, J., Wootsch, A., Revay, Z., Havecker, M., Knop-Gericke, A., Jackson, S.D., and Schlogl, R. (2008) The roles of subsurface carbon and hydrogen in palladium-catalyzed alkyne hydrogenation. Science, 320(5872), pp. 86-89. (doi:10.1126/science.1155200) Teschner, D., Revay, Z., Borsodi, J., Havecker, M., Knop-Gericke, A., Schlogl, R., Milroy, D., Jackson, S. D., Torres, D., and Sautet, P. (2008) Understanding Palladium Hydrogenation Catalysts: When the Nature of the Reactive Molecule Controls the Nature of the Catalyst Active Phase. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 47(48), pp. 9274-9278. (doi:10.1002/anie.200802134)