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W G Frankenberg (Editor) : Advances In Catalysis and Related Subjects

Academic Press, 1957

ISBN 0120078090

1957 Ex Library. Volume IX. Edited by W G Frankenburg. BOOK in good black cloth hardcovers, very slight bumping to corners & spine ends. PAGES tanned but clean, flat & tight, untrimmed bottom corners to pages 183-214. Used appearance, fascinating book. Book Extract; The idea of organizing the International Congress on Catalysis was con-ceived by the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia and received ready endorse-ment from the Catalysis Club of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania,and the National Science Foundation.The purpose of the Congress was to assemble scientists engaged in thestudy of catalysis and related fields from as many countries and schools ofthought as possible and thus to bring about a cross-fertilization of ideas.In view of the tremendous growth in the industrial application of cataly-sis in the last decade and the ever-increasing scientific activity in this fieldit was thought that such a congress would be most welcome to all inter-ested workers. No international meeting on catalysis has ever been held inthe United States of America, and the last international discussion on thissubject took place in 1950 in Liverpool under the sponsorship of the Fara-day Society.Backed by the enthusiastic interest of the American chemical and petro-leum industry, the International Congress on Catalysis, held under thehonorary chairmanship of Sir Hugh Taylor, Sir Eric Rideal, and Mr.Eugene J. Houdry in Philadelphia in September 1956, succeeded in attract-ing more than seven hundred participants from some twenty differentcountries.The papers presented before the Congress were grouped in four majorsymposia. The first of these, "Chemistry and Physics of Solid Catalysts,^covered hydrogenation and hydrogen exchange reactions, physical prop-erties of catalysts, electronic properties, and catalytic activity. The secondsymposium dealt with "Homogeneous Catalysis and Related Effects^ andwas followed by a discussion on "Surface C, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Good

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