Iron Japanese research

It is commercially advantageous to operate cells with no diaphragm since the cell diaphiagm is the weakest point in the system. Achievement of this aim rests upon finding an anode reaction that destroys neither the substrate nor the product. Russian workers [63] showed that up to 90 % yields of adiponitrile can be obtained at a graphite cathode in an undivided cell with an iron oxide anode, provided that phosphate and tetraalkylammomum ions are present. Further research contributions from Monsanto, BASF and Japanese companies led to the present system for hydrodimerization of acrylonitrile using an undivided cell [64,65]. 

This review summarizes the content of a series of lectures given by one of the authors (A.T.F.) at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, in July, 1979. Abbreviated versions were presented in lectures given at the Research Institute for Iron, Steel, and other Metals at Tohoku University in Sendai, Nippon Steel Corporation Fundamental Research Institute in Kawasaki, and before the Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto University. Fincancial support by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (J.S.P.S.) and the creative stimulus provided by the Faculty of Engineering... 

Cammack R (1987) In Matsubara H (ed) Iron sulfur protein research, Japanese ScL Soc. Press,... 

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