An ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will plan and host a workshop to consider how the chemistry and chemical engineering communities can contribute practical solutions to improving the production of chemicals through innovations in catalysis. Specifically, the workshop will:

· discuss new and emerging catalytic approaches in the synthesis of commodity, specialty, and fine chemicals;

· enable technical communication and sharing information and resources among relevant research and industrial practitioner communities in fields such as biology, chemistry, engineering, and materials science; and

· consider new chemical systems, methods, and approaches for increasing energy efficiency, increasing atom economy, and/or decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

A workshop proceedings-in-brief, authored by a rapporteur, will be published after the workshop.