Muetterties, Earl

Inorganic Syntheses, Volume X Edited by Earl L. Muetterties Copyright 1967 by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 

This work was begun during my apprenticeship with the late Earl L. Muetterties. I am indebted to many of my colleagues and friends for sharing their knowledge and vision with me. Here my special thanks are to John T. Yates, Jr., Gerhard Ertl, and Michel Boudart, who have been the most sympathetic listeners and incisive critics of my work, and to Alexis T. Bell for the sheer scientific pleasure of our collaboration. 

In the First Edition of Regular Polytopes, Coxeter stated, ... the chief reason for studying regular polyhedra is still the same as in the times of the Pythagoreans, namely, that their symmetrical shapes appeal to one s artistic sense [23], The success of modem molecular chemistry does not diminish the validity of this statement. On the contrary. There is no doubt that aesthetic appeal has much contributed to the rapid development of what could be termed polyhedral chemistry. One of the pioneers in the area of polyhedral borane chemistry, Earl Muetterties, movingly described his attraction to the chemistry of boron hydrides, comparing it to M. C. Escher s devotion to periodic drawings [24], Muetterties words are quoted here [25] ... 

The authors would like to express their appreciation to Professor Sir Jack Lewis for his boundless support and encouragement which has kept them going through all the good and bad times of the last five years. Finally, the authors would like to dedicate this article to the memory of Professor Earl Muetterties with whom they had a number of friendly discussions, and whose thoughtful guidance helped develop their interest in cluster-alkyne chemistry. 

Molecular transition metal clusters have long been proposed as models for some aspects of the chemistry at metal surfaces. Earl Muetterties was one of the first to promote this cluster-surface analogy... 

Submitted by Roy G. NEViLLE t and John J. McGee Checked by Constance Wright and Earl L. Muetterties ... 

Joseph J. Katz Argonne National Laboratory Earl L. Muetterties E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company Lowell E. Netherton Wyandotte Chemical Corporation Morris L. Nielsen Monsanto Research Corporation Robert W. Parry University of Michigan Janet D. Scott South Kent, Connecticut S. Young Tyree, Jr. University of North Carolina Geoffrey Wilkinson Imperial College of Science and Technology London)... 

Finally, I wish to mention the dedication of this volume to Earl Muetterties, whose untimely passing has saddened us all. He was the Editor of Volume 10 of this series and continued to contribute to the success of later volumes. 

Examples which come to mind are those of Philip E. Eaton, who owed his interest in cage molecules to industrial work on chlorinated pesticides, which led him to the epochal synthesis of cubane in 1964 (Traynham 1997) of Fred McLafiferty and George Olah, who both worked for a time in a laboratory of Dow Chemical of Richard E. Smalley, an industrial chemist before he enrolled as a graduate student at Princeton (Smalley 1996) of Earl Muetterties, who left the Experimental Station at DuPont in Wilmington for a professorship at the University of California of Howard E. Simmons who, when heading central research also at DuPont, turned down the offer of a professorship at Harvard (Bohning 1993, Roberts Collette 1999) and so on. 

Earl L. Muetterties etal. Metal clusters as homogeneous catalysts for reduction of carbon monoxide in Fischer-Tropsch reaction... 

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