George A. Olah, Thomas Mathew

A Life of Magic Chemistry (eBook, PDF)

Autobiographical Reflections Including Post-Nobel Prize Years and the Methanol Economy, 2nd Updated Edition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The autobiography of a Nobel Prize winner, this book tells us about George Olah's fascinating research into extremely strong superacids and how it yielded the common term "magic acids." Olah guides us through his long and remarkable journey, from Budapest to Cleveland to Los Angeles, with a stopover in Stockholm. This updated autobiography of a Nobel Prize winner George A. Olah: * Chronicles the distinguished career of a chemist whose work in a broad range of chemistry areas, and most notably that in methane chemistry, led to technologies that impact the processing and utility of alternative fuels * Is based on Olah's work on extremely strong superacids and how they yielded the common term, "magic acids" * Details events since the publication of the first edition in 2000 * Inspires readers with details on Dr. Olah's successful recent research on methanol, intended to help provide a solution to "the oil problem"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118839904
• Artikelnr.: 42676222

Autorenporträt

GEORGE A. OLAH, PhD, was awarded the undivided 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is the Founding Director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Thomas Mathew, PhD, is a Senior Scientist and long-time close associate of Professor George A. Olah at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 Perspectives on Science 4
Chapter 3 Chemistry: The Multifaceted Central Science 21 Chapter 4 Growing
Up in Hungary and Turning to Chemistry 38 Chapter 5 Early Research and
Teaching: Departing the Shadow of Emil Fischer 51 Chapter 6 Move to North
America: Industrial Experience While Pursuing the Elusive Cations of Carbon
64 Chapter 7 Return to Academia--The Cleveland Years: Carbocations, Magic
Acid, and Superacid Chemistry 84 Chapter 8 Moving to Los Angeles:
Hydrocarbon Research and Building the Loker Institute 108 Chapter 9 The
Nonclassical Ion Controversy and Its Significance 137 Chapter 10 From
Kekul¿e's Four-Valent Carbon to Five- and Higher Coordinate Hypercarbon
Chemistry 154 Chapter 11 The Nobel Prize: Learning to Live with It and Not
Rest on Laurels 170 Chapter 12 Research in Post-Nobel Years: From
Superacids to Superelectrophiles 189 Chapter 13 Renewable Carbon Chemistry:
Anthropogenic Chemical Cycle with CO2 Capture and Recycling to Methanol 206
Chapter 14 Rendering Methanol, A Renewable Carbon Source and Fuel: Direct
and Regenerative Methanol Fuel Cell 225 Chapter 15 The Concept and
Development of the Methanol Economy 242 Chapter 16 Gone My Way 254 Chapter
17 Concluding Remarks 294 Appendix My Previous Books for References and
Additional Reading 297 Curriculum Vitae of George Andrew Olah 300 Index 306