La théorie de la catalyse vue d'ensemble et essai de synthèse

Abstract

THE definition of the word 'catalyst' used to have a quite precise meaning in chemistry, whether catalysis occurred in heterogeneous or homogeneous systems. In recent years 'catalysis' has come to include a tremendous variety of chemical reactions which, strictly speaking, do not involve true catalysis at all. In a similar way, the term 'negative catalysis' did duty until such time that the mechanism of the retardation and inhibition of chemical reactions was more fully understood, when it became abundantly plain that the inhibitor was almost invariably chemically destroyed in the inhibitory reaction. This extension of the meaning of the term has therefore led to the belief that a systematic treatment of the mechanism of chemical reactions is most easily accomplished by treating reactions as catalytic processes.

La théorie de la catalyse vue d'ensemble et essai de synthèse

Par Prof. Jacques Métadier. (Actualités scientifiques et industrielles, 1005.) Pp. 101. (Paris: Hermann et Cie., 1946.) 200 francs.