Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division

T. M. Sivavec, D. P. Homey, and S. S. Baghel, Emer >in)> Technologies in Hazardous Wa.ste Management VII, Special Symposium, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society, Atlanta. Georgia. Sept. 17-20, 1995. 

Several histories of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division have been compiled over the last century, including the one written in 1951 by Division Chairman William A. Pardee, which was published in Vol. 43, No. 2 of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (1951). Additional information was found in A History of the American Chemical Society Seventy-Five Eventful Years, by Charles Albert Browne (Historian of the American Chemical Society) and Mary Elvira Weeks, published by the Society in 1952. An update was included in A Century of Chemistry The Role of Chemists and the American Chemical Society, edited by Kenneth M. Reese and H. Skolnik, and published by the Society in 1976. I EC historian David E. Gushee published a Division... 

The centennial of the ACS s Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division marks a century of accomplishment during which one of humanity s grand technical achievements, the American chemical industry, grew to maturity. Driven by society s needs for goods and services that enhanced the quality-of-life, chemists and chemical engineers produced ever-more innovative products to economically meet these demands. 

As it has in the past century, the chemists and chemical engineers of ACS s Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division will continue to add to the story of innovation and enterprise that is die history of the American industrial gases industry. They and the industry they participate in will grow as they rise to meet the needs of 21 -century society. 

The last decade has witnessed an indisputable burgeoning of research within the field of ionic liquids, both in academe and industry. Part of the responsibility for this explosion of interest can be attributed to the strong commitment of the American Chemical Society s Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division and its subdivisions. In particular, the oral and written forums sponsored by the Division have enhanced discourse between scientific and industrial partners across the world and have served as a platform for advances in the field. Here, through a series of snapshots represented by the Division s five major ionic liquids symposia, we take a look at the world of ionic liquids. 

On this, the centenary year of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division and the centenary of one of the very few green chemistry papers from before the 1970 s, we can celebrate the fact that green chemistry has blossomed into an important field of research and development. The principles of green chemistry are increasingly being followed by industry. While there is much work to be done in the next one hundred years, let us not lose sight of the advances that have already come about. 

Whitehurst, D.D. A Premier on the Chemistry and Constitution of Coal. Paper presented at the ACS Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division Meeting, Chicago (Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1977). 

A large part of the initiative for the formation at the new Division came from within the Division of Paint, Varnish and Plastics Chemistry, as well as the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division, and was spearheaded by individuals such as... 

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