Book description
This first book to illuminate this important aspect of chemical
synthesis improves the lifetime of catalysts, thus reducing material and
saving energy, costs and waste.
The international panel of expert authors describes the studies that
have been conducted concerning the way homogeneous catalysts decompose,
and the differences between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts.
The result is a ready reference for organic, catalytic, polymer and
complex chemists, as well as those working in industry and with/on
organometallics. Piet van Leeuwen is group leader in the Institute of
Chemical Research of Catalonia, Tarragona, Spain, since 2004 and
emeritus professor of homogeneous catalysis at the University of
Amsterdam. Until 1994 he headed a research group at Shell Research in
Amsterdam studying many aspects of homogeneous catalysis. He coauthored
300 publications, 30 patents, many book chapters, is author of the book
"Homogeneous catalysis: Understanding the art". In 2005 he won
the Holleman Prize (for organic chemists), granted only every five years
by the Royal Academy, and obtained a Marie Curie Chair of Excellence in Tarragona.
John Chadwick is employed by LyondellBasell Industries and since 2001
has been on secondment at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he
is programme coordinator for Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) projects on
polymer catalysis and immobilization. Until 1995, he was at Shell
Research in Amsterdam, after which he transferred to the LyondellBasell
(at that time Montell, later Basell) research center in Ferrara, Italy,
where he was involved in fundamental Ziegler-Natta catalyst R&D. His
main research interests involve heterogeneous olefin polymerization
catalysis, including Ziegler-Natta and immobilized single-site systems.
He is author or co-author of more than 60 publications and 11 patents.
