Chemicals from Synthesis Gas: Catalytic Reactions of CO and, Volume 2The origins of the petrochemical industry can be traced back to the 1920s when simple organic chemicals such as ethanol and isopropanol were first prepared on an industrial scale from by-products (ethylene and propylene) of oil refining. This oil-based petrochemical industry, with lower olefms and aromatics as the key building blocks, rapidly developed into the enormous industry it is today. A multitude of products that are indispensible to modern day society, from plastics to pharmaceuticals, are derived from oil and natural gas-based hydro carbons. The industry had its heyday in the '50s and '60s when predictions of future growth rates tended to be exponential curves. However, two developments that took place in the early '70s disturbed this simplistic and optimistic view of the future. Firstly, the publication of the report for the Cub of Rome on the 'Limits to Growth' emphasized the finite nature of non-renewable fossil fuel resources. Secondly, the Oil Crisis of 1973 emphasized the vulnerability of an energy and chemicals industry that is based largely on a single raw material. |
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acetic acid active affords alcohols aldehyde alkyl alternative amines amounts application aromatic base bond carbon monoxide carried Catal catalyst Chapter Chem chemicals chemistry CO2H coal cobalt complexes compounds conversion conversion of syn coordination corresponding derivatives direct discussed dissociation effect electron elimination esters ethylene glycol example Fischer-Tropsch followed formaldehyde formation formed German Patent give halides HCO(CO HOCH homogeneous homologation hydride hydrocarbons hydroformylation hydrogenation important increasing industrial initial insertion interesting intermediate involves iodide latter leads ligand linear lower olefins major manufacture mechanism metal carbonyl methanol methyl mixture observed olefins organic oxidative oxidative addition oxygenates phase presence pressure propylene radical RCH=CH2 reaction reactive readily recent reduction referred reported rhodium route ruthenium Scheme selectivity shown solvent species step studies subsequent substrate supported surface syn gas synthesis Table temperatures transfer transition metal various yield
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| Title | Chemicals from Synthesis Gas: Catalytic Reactions of CO and, Volume 2 Volume 3 of Catalysis by Metal Complexes |
| Author | R.A. Sheldon |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 1983 |
| ISBN | 9027714894, 9789027714893 |
| Length | 216 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical Science / Chemistry / Organic Science / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical Technology & Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical |
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