Discovery hydrogen

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The French chemist Paul Sabatier received the 1912 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery that finely di vided nickel is an effective hydrogenation catalyst... 

Storage as Hydrides. The discovery of metal compounds that reversibly absorb hydrogen is relatively recent. In the 1970s, the AB and AB family of alloys, which reversibly absorb hydrogen at room temperature and low pressure, were identified (205). Both A and B are metals. As of this writing many such compounds are known LaNi and TiFe are examples. 

Ca.ta.lysis by Protons. The discovery of hydrogen peroxide hydroxylation of phenol in the presence of strong acids such as perchloric, trifluoromethane-sulfonic, or sulfuric acids allows suppression of all previous drawbacks of the process (18,19). This mode of hydroxylation gives high yields (85% based on H2O2 at phenol conversion of 5—6%). It can be mn without solvents and does not generate resorcinol. Its main advantage rehes on... 

This system of nomenclature has withstood the impact of later experimental discoveries and theoretical developments that have since the time of Guyton de Morveau and Lavoisier greatiy altered the character of chemical thought, eg, atomic theory (Dalton, 1802), the hydrogen theory of acids (Davy, 1809), the duahstic theory (Berzehus, 1811), polybasic acids (Liebig, 1834), Periodic Table (Mendeleev and Meyer, 1869), electrolytic dissociation theory (Arrhenius, 1887), and electronic theory and modem knowledge of molecular stmcture. 

In the late 1980s, however, the discovery of a noble metal catalyst that could tolerate and destroy halogenated hydrocarbons such as methyl bromide in a fixed-bed system was reported (52,53). The products of the reaction were water, carbon dioxide, hydrogen bromide, and bromine. Generally, a scmbber would be needed to prevent downstream equipment corrosion. However, if the focus of the control is the VOCs and the CO rather than the methyl bromide, a modified catalyst formulation can be used that is able to tolerate the methyl bromide, but not destroy it. In this case the methyl bromide passes through the bed unaffected, and designing the system to avoid downstream effects is not necessary. Destmction efficiencies of hydrocarbons and CO of better than 95% have been reported, and methyl bromide destmctions between 0 and 85% (52). 

Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis The best-known technology for producing hydrocarbons from synthesis gas is the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. This technology was first demonstrated in Germany in 1902 by Sabatier and Senderens when they hydrogenated carbon monoxide (CO) to methane, using a nickel catalyst. In 1926 Fischer and Tropsch were awarded a patent for the discovery of a catalytic technique to convert synthesis gas to liquid hydrocarbons similar to petroleum. 

A significant step towards commercial success came with a discovery in the late 1950s by E. Ulrich at 3M when he found that copolymerization of hydrogen bonding monomers, like acrylic acid with alkyl acrylates resulted in cohesively strong, yet tacky materials [63]. Since then, newer developments in such areas as polymer crosslinking, and the synthesis and copolymerization of new monomers, have led to a rapid penetration of acrylics throughout the PSA industry. 

A very significant recent development in the field of catalytic hydrogenation has been the discovery that certain transition metal coordination complexes catalyze the hydrogenation of olefinic and acetylenic bonds in homogeneous solution.Of these catalysts tris-(triphenylphosphine)-chloror-hodium (131) has been studied most extensively.The mechanism of the deuteration of olefins with this catalyst is indicated by the following scheme (131 -> 135) ... 

The discovery of the Balz-Schiemann reaction in 1927 replaced the earlier Wallach procedure (1886) based on fluorodediazoniation of arenediazonium piper-idides (aryltriazenes) in aqueous hydrogen fluoride [40 41]... 

Hydrogen was recognized as the essential element in acids by H. Davy after his work on the hydrohalic acids, and theories of acids and bases have played an important role ever since. The electrolytic dissociation theory of S. A. Arrhenius and W. Ostwald in the 1880s, the introduction of the pH scale for hydrogen-ion concentrations by S. P. L. Sprensen in 1909, the theory of acid-base titrations and indicators, and J. N. Brdnsted s fruitful concept of acids and conjugate bases as proton donors and acceptors (1923) are other land marks (see p. 48). The di.scovery of ortho- and para-hydrogen in 1924, closely followed by the discovery of heavy hydrogen (deuterium) and... 

The production of tritium-labelled organic compounds was enormously facilitated by K. E. Wilz-bach s discovery in 1956 that tritium could be introduced merely by storing a compound under tritium gas for a few days or weeks the radiation induces exchange reactions between the hydrogen atoms in the compound and the tritium gas. The excess of gas is recovered for further use and the tritiated compound is purified chro-matographically. Another widely used method of... 

Perhaps the most exciting recent development in the chemistry of hydrogen is the discovery that, in transition metal polyhydrides, the molecule Hj can act as a dihapto ligand, (see below). 

In general As " organic derivatives are more toxic than As derivatives. The use of organoarsenicals in medicine dates from the discovery in 1905 by H. W. Thomas that atoxyl (first made by A. Bechamp in 1863) cured experimental trypanosomiasis (e.g. sleeping sickness). In 1907 P. Erlich and A. Bertheim showed that atoxyl was sodium hydrogen 4-aminophenylarsonate... 

H. C. Urey (Columbia, New York) discovery of heavy hydrogen. 

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