Ipatieff Laboratory

Current address Department of Materials Science and Ipatieff Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201... 

Ipatieff Laboratory Department of Chemical Engineering Northwestern University,... 

Harold H. Rung, Ipatieff Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 (1)... 

The proposal, elaboration, and eventual demise in the late 1920s (after considerable controversy) of the Radiation Hypothesis , which was introduced in the first decade of the 20th century to account for chemical reactions that were indirectly caused by radiation, has been discussed.129 There is a book on the history of radical chemistry130 and also a book co-authored by one of the participants about the development of free radical chemistry during the half century from about the end of World War II.131 The Dutch School of Catalysis,132 R Sabatier s (1854-1941) role in the discovery of catalysis,133 and the establishment and development of the Ipatieff Laboratory at Northwestern University134 have also been presented. 

Ipatieff Laboratory Department cf Chemistry Center for Catalysis and Surface Science Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208... 

Thus, Herman Pines brought to an academic career a successful background in industry and was able to help his students understand the industrial significance of the chemistry they were learning in the classroom and investigating in the research laboratory. However, I do not want to leave the impression that practical industrial research was being done in the Ipatieff Laboratory. On the contrary, the research was basic, but often it had industrial implications. As his former students Joseph Ar-... 

Herman Pines joined Professor Ipatieff at Northwestern University at the time the Ipatieff Laboratory was being relocated from the basement of University Hall to the Technological Institute. Leon Gershbein, a student of Ipatieff and Pines at that time, recalls that Pines thoughts and plans were constantly with the new Ipatieff Laboratory. He was successful in making it one of a kind among university chemistry laboratories throughout the world. 

Stanley Brown remembers how he chose Herman Pines as his research advisor. During their interview. Pines talked to him for an hour about the wonders of catalytic chemistry, escorted him through the Ipatieff Laboratory, introduced him to all the workers, and loaded him down with dozens of reprints. It was this kind of approach that enlarged the Ipatieff Laboratory group. By the late forties Pines and the Professor had attracted a good sized group of graduate students and postdocs. I think we... 

Herman Pines tried to have each student build some piece of equipment to add to the research laboratory, for example, an ozonizer or a boiling point apparatus. We had excellent equipment, and we were able to get a great deal done. The laboratory got the latest equipment appropriate for the type of research in the Ipatieff Laboratory. For example, the Ipatieff Laboratory had a gas chromatograph before most academic laboratories did. 

Workers in the Ipatieff Laboratory were always aware of the differences in activity, particularly acid activity, of the silica and alumina they used. In the late fifties and early sixties, Pines and his students studied the intrinsic acidity and catalytic activity of aluminas as a function of their preparation method (24). They investigated the dehydration of alcohols (25-31) and many excellent papers were contributed in the alumina area and in the area of alumina supported dehydrogenation and aromatization catalysts (32, 33, 34). 

Reluctantly, in 1929 Ipatieff left his homeland for the United States. He remained at UOP for the remainder of his life. Northwestern University, which had close ties to UOP, appointed Ipatieff to a professorship and directorship of the university s high-pressure research laboratory. 

In this special field, earlier work had been done in other laboratories, such as by the Schering Company, Berlin (36), and by Ipatieff (37) in connection with his work on the hydrogenation of camphor and of other organic compounds. At both places, the favorable effect of alkali oxides and earth alkali oxides on nickel, cobalt and copper has been investigated. Similarly, Paal and his coworkers (38) have used a palladium-aluminum hydroxide catalyst in 1913 for the hydrogenation of double bonds. Bedford and Erdman (39) had reported that the catalytic action of nickel oxide is enhanced by the oxides of aluminum, zirconium, titanium, calcium, lanthanum, and magnesium. 

At both the Universal Oil research laboratory and the Ipatieff Catalytic Laboratory at Northwestern (an extension of the original laboratory set up by Ipatieff) Dr Ipatieff was active almost to, the time of his death Ref Anon, Chem Engr News 30, 5300 (1952)... 

Chemical Engineering Department and the Ipatieff Catalytic Laboratory Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois... 

Harold H. Kung, Chemical Engineering Department and the Ipatieff Catalytic Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201 (159) Mayfair C. Kung, Chemical Engineering Department and the Ipatieff Catalytic Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201 (159)... 

His early collaboration with Ipatieff began at Universal Oil Products and continued at Northwestern University where, from 1941 to 1952, he held a concurrent position as associate professor. In 1952 he became the Ipatieff Research Professor of Chemistry and director of the Ipatieff High Pressure and Catalytic Laboratory. 

All his life his activities were rewarded by more material wealth than his own simple personal tastes required. He spent it instead on the promotion of his beloved science—chemistry. To honor and encourage the work of young chemists in catalysis, he established the Ipatieff Prize. To provide better facilities for teaching students, he built and guided the Ipatieff High Pressure and Catalysis Laboratory at Northwestern University. 

At both the Universal Oil research laboratory and the Ipatieff Catalytic Laboratory at North-... 

H. Pines, Ipatieff High Pressure and Catalytic Laboratory, Department of... 

The catalytic alkylation of saturated hydrocarbons with olefins was discovered and developed by Ipatieff and his co-workers in the laboratories of the Universal Oil Products Company (Ipatieff, 1). Experiments were carried out in June, 1932, by Ipatieff and Pines, using aluminum chloride as the catalyst, hydrogen chloride as a promoter, and hexane and ethylene as the reactants. These experiments having given positive results, they were repeated by Komarewsky, who then also investigated the alkylation of naphthenes. The alkylation of hexane was studied quantitatively by Grosse, who extended the reaction to other paraffins and catalysts, particularly boron fluoride. 

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