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Zeolite
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Chemistry and Catalysis
Contact: Dr. B. Wichterlovi, The J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Dolejskova 3, CS-182 23 Prague 8, Czechoslovakia (Appl. Catal.,50(1989)N37)
*48th Int. Meeting on Physical Chemistry “Synchrotron Radiation and Dynamic Phenomena”
9-13 Sept. 1991 Grenoble, France
Contact: C. Troyanowsky, sion de Chimie Physique, France
Workshop sion”
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Societe Frangaise de Chimie, Divi10 rue Vauquelin, F 75005 Paris,
Meeting on “G-C3
Hydrocarbons
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7th International Symposium on the Relationship between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
10-14 May 1992
Tokyo, Japan
Contact: M. Ichikawa, Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan 10th International
19-24 July 1992 Budapest, Hungary
t Indicates
Congress
on Catalysis
Contact: Prof. L. Guczi, Institute of Isotopes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 77, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary (Appl. Catal., 48(1989)403)
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Book Review Acid-Base Catalysis, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Acid-Base Catalysis, Sapporo, November 284ecember 7, 1988, edited by K. Tanabe, H. Hattori, T. Yamaguchi and T. Tanaka, VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, Weinheim, F.R.G., 1989, 532 i xx pp., DM 196.00, ISBN 3-527-27883-4 The symposium
on acid-base
catalysis held in 1988 in Hokkaido
series, the first having been held in 1984 in Villeurbanne, twenty-eight included
poster papers were presented
in the proceedings.
entitled: organic lytic features. zation applied
synthesis,
The various characterization,
Due to the diversity
into the above CatalVSiS
-
chapters
in this
France. Twenty invited papers and
at the symposium contributions
was the second
and all of them have been
are organized
design and preparation
into four chapters
of catalysts
and cata-
of the topics dealt with in the many papers the categoriappears
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cases
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rather arbitrary.
However,
the
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individual
contributions
excellent overview
are of good quality and together
of the development
they provide
a well-balanced
of research in the most important
and
areas of acid-base
catalysis.
1 (Organic Synthesis)
Chapter
topics such as the application Nafion-H+,
magnesium
oxides activated
but relatively
recommended Important covered
broad
developments
characterization
insight
metal cations, and Lewis acids such
in the state of the art of these fields
in the characterization
presented
in Chapter
of the acid-base
2, which
with suitable probe molecules
but limited
use of model
reactions.
properties
A quantum
of information
concerning
character.
deals with the design materials
chemical
in the preparation
acids
magnesium
oxide
catalysts.
Several
of the important
mixed metal oxides,
This chapter provides
valuable
bifunctional
catalysis presented
of Hokkaido
The organizers
behaviour
Doubtless
have to be complemented
Although
Some metal
hydroxyl
groups
on
of acid-base
Professor KozoTanabe
University.
the book
to everybody
past years and particularly
effort and progress
impressively
catalysis this tradition
groups (Sapporo
made in this field of
the high standard
has been particularly
In this light the place of the symposium
is worth reading
interested
on having brought together
most of them stem from Japanese
they also demonstrate
in Japan. In acid-base
In summary,
acid-base
catalysis
of catalysis cultivated
for
was not accidental.
and worth its price. Purchase
in the progress
can be recom-
has made over the
it should be on the shelf of all libraries dealing with catalysis.
Zurich Accepted,
chapters.
compounds,
for the visualization
by the chairman of the symposium,
of the symposium
decades at Hokkaido mended
of surface
graphics
is not easy to reach!), they do reflect the worldwide research
phase of heteropoly
content. Most
University.
very interesting contributions. catalysis.
solid
informa-
of such materials.
catalytic
and the use of computer
some
viewpoint.
have been accommodated in the preceding
as solid acid catalysts,
offer a
and bases,
presented at the symposium,
clay minerals,
topics dealt with are: catalysis in the pseudo-liquid phosphates
for the
is also discussed.
The final chapter, entitled “Catalytic Features”, has a rather heterogeneous of the papers could probably
and the
approach
from an interesting
of acid-base (Zeolites,
super acids and bases, resins, etc.) are presented. tion for all those interested
of solid
most of the papers (seventeen) catalysis
including
spectroscopy
while others are very specific. This
the characterization
and preparation
used in acid-base
a thorough
In any case, the contributions
aspects are new, others are classical but considered which comprises
of solids are
are discussed,
using vibrational
in this chapter are review-like,
gives the chapter a rather heterogeneous
Chapter3,
and is highly
reflects how complex
of the local structure of super acid sites in aluminosilicates
Some of the contributions wealth
interesting
in organic chemistry. The chapter offers
of such materials is. Several different approaches
the characterization elucidation
by transition
covering
clays, solid superacidic
for reading.
by the papers
powerful,
review type contributions
pillared and non-pillared
reagents for catalyticsynthesis
as organoaluminium a short,
includes
of zeolites,
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