Catalytic oxidation on platinum

Continuing the line of catalytic oxidation on platinum. Peregrine Philips (1831, British Patent No. 6096) patented the oxidation of SO2 to SO3 on platinum, but he must have died before the first contact process plant for the production of sulfuric acid went on stream. And finally, along this line of work, Schweigger in the same year discovered that hydrogen sulfide poisoned platinum. 

Today, someone might possibly write cin annual review of the coordination chemistry of chromium. But, Baron Jacob Berzelius, the Mr. Chemistry of his day, wrote an annual review of chemistry every year for twenty-eight years. In 1835, he surveyed Kirchoff s work on acid hydrolysis, the catalytic oxidations on platinum and Thenard s work on the decomposition of H2 O2. He discerned a phenomenon common to the three areas, and he invented catalysis and catalyst. Unfortunately, he coined cinother term, catalytic force (6). 

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