Abstract
THIS is a chemical autobiography; it concerns the life researches of a great Russian chemist, now an exile and professionally active in the United States in the field of catalysis and its industrial application. The author seeks to have correct significance placed upon his investigations, which he claims has not always been done; he retaliates by making little reference to the work of others. As a result, the reader is presented with a mass of information often stimulating and suggestive, which however should be approached critically. It is most valuable to have a subject presented in this way instead of the judicial form necessary in the text-book; instead there is the zeal of the author convinced of the importance of his discoveries and the soundness of his hypotheses. Such are developed here for the reactions of dehydration, alkylation, polymerization and isomerization, in some instances for the first time.
Catalytic Reactions at High Pressures and Temperatures
By V. N. Ipatieff. Pp. xxii + 786. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936.) 30s. net.
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Catalytic Reactions at High Pressures and Temperatures. Nature 139, 695 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139695a0
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