Benson, Sidney

Benson, Sidney ., Thermo chemical Kinetics , pp 9)4-95, John Wiley Sons, Inc., Hevj York, 1968. Hutchings, David A., Freeh, Kenneth J., Hoppstock, Frederic H., Gas-Phase Gyclization of Piperylene to Cyclopentene and Gyclopentadiene Using H2S as a Catalyst , presented April 9, 1972, Boston Meeting AGS, Division of Petroleum Chemistry. 

Sidney W. V. Benson Thermochemical kinetics. John Wiley and Sons (1968). 

SIDNEY W. BENSON, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,... 

Submitted by H. Taniguchi, I. M. Mathai, and Sidney I. Miller1 Cheeked by Marion F. Habibi and Richard E. Benson... 

This preface gives me the opportunity of thanking my scientific masters Professor Maurice Letort (1907-1972), Member of the Academy of Sciences, Professor Michel Niclause (1923-1997), director of my own thesis, and Professor Sidney Benson, of Stanford University, USA, whose so fertile ideas have impregnated a whole generation of kineticists. It allows me also to thank all those with whom I have worked colleagues, teachers and research workers, Ph.D. students, graduates, technicians, administrative staff. 

Prof. Johnston s publications in the early 1970s removed several of the major reaction kinetic problems that I had encountered in my 1971 study. It was shown, for instance, that neither reaction (14) nor (15) occur to a significant degree in the gas phase, and that the earlier laboratory studies had been significantiy influenced by reactions on the walls of the reaction vessels [29], advice that was earlier also given to me in a private communication by Prof. Sidney Benson of the University of Southern California. 

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