Sabatier, Nobel prize

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... 

By and large, a pejorative view of the methodological sophistication of chemical science has prevailed, notably, in comparison to physics. The structure of scientific explanation in chemistry often has been deemed child s play, or kitchen work. Chemistry frequently is characterized as a handmaiden, "like the maid occupied with daily civilization she is busy with fertilizers, medicines, glass, [and] insecticides. .. for which she dispenses the recipes."3 The Toulouse physicist Henri Bouasse enraged his colleague Paul Sabatier, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1912, by jibing that chemists only aim to "faire la cuisine."4... 

Grignard, Victor (1871—1935). French chemist, receipient (with Paul Sabatier) of Nobel Prize in chemistry (1912). Discovered organo-maguesium compds used for organic synthesis (See Griguard s Reaction and Reagent)... 

P. Sabatier Receives the Nobel prize in chemistry for the development of the hydrogenation of organic compounds catalyzed by small metal particles. 1912... 

Methane is the principal gas found with coal and oil deposits and is a major fuel and chemical used is the petrochemical industry. Slightly less than 20% of the worlds energy needs are supplied by natural gas. The United States get about 30% of its energy needs from natural gas. Methane can be synthesized industrially through several processes such as the Sabatier method, Fischer Tropsch process, and steam reforming. The Sabatier process, named for Frenchman Paul Sabatier (1854—1941), the 1912 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry from France, involves the reaction of carbon dioxide and hydrogen with a nickel or ruthenium metal catalyst C02 + 4H2 —> CH4 + 2H20. 

Paul Sabatier, French chemist. The Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 1912 for discovering metal particle... 

SABATIER, PAUL (1854-1941). A French chemist who received the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1912 along with Victor Grignard. His work involved the behavior of oxides as oxidizing catalysts and as agents for dehydrating and dehydrogenating. He received his PhD. In Nimes, France, and went on to become lecturer and faculty member in Toulouse, France. 

In 1897, Sabatier and Senderens ( ) made a pioneering study of the use of a nickel as a catalyst for the hydrogenation of ethylene (ethene) to ethane. This investigation led to the award of the Nobel Prize to Sabatier in 1912. Since that time the importance of heterogeneous catalysts has continued to increase greatly, decade by decade, extending the boundaries of laboratory chemical researches and promoting new and more cost-effective processes within the chemical industry (2). The correct choice of a catalyst allows a desired reaction to proceed under milder conditions of temperature and pressure than would be... 

Catalytic hydrogenation is unquestionably the workhorse of catalytic organic synthesis, with a long tradition dating back to the days of Sabatier [53] who received the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work in this area. It is widely used in the manufacture of fine and specialty chemicals and a special issue of the journal Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis was recently devoted to this important topic [54]. According to Roessler [55], 10-20% of all the reaction steps in the synthesis of vitamins (even 30% for vitamin E) at Hoffmann-La Roche (in 1996) are catalytic hydrogenations. 

Grignard, Victor. (1871-1935). A French chemist who worked with Sabatier to win the Nobel Prize in 1912. He authored Theses sur les combi-naisons organomagnesiennes mixtes et leurs applications a des syntheses. As a student of Berbier, he went from Lyons to Besancon to Nancy, France. He discovered organomagnesium compounds that are used for organic synthesis by the Grignard reaction. 

The field of arene hydrogenation chemistry will soon enter its second century. The initial work of Sabatier on the interaction of finely divided nickel with ethylene and hydrogen gas led to the development of the first active catalyst for the hydrogenation of benzene. Sabatier was awarded the Nobel prize for his work in 1912... 

Platinum and palladium are expensive metals, so the accidental finding by Paul Sabatier 1854-1941) that nickel, a much cheaper metal, can catalyze hydrogenation reactions made hydrogenation a feasible large-scale industrial process. The conversion of plant oils to margarine is one such hydrogenation reaction. Sabatier was born in France and was a professor at the University of Toulouse. He shared the 1912 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Victor Grignard (p. 468). 

The catalytic era in world industry emerged hardly fifty years ago. For catalysis was accorded world recognition only in 1909, when Wilhelm Ostwald was the first to win the Nobel Prize for his work in catalysis and investigations into chemical equilibria and reaction rates. Three years later, the same honor was bestowed upon Paul Sabatier, who is also noted for his research in catalysis. Some time had to elapse, however, until this new industrial tool took hold in the petroleum industry. 

I doubt that many French, English, Russian or American workers would write so strongly. Personally, I would put the influence of Sabatier who did not get the Nobel Prize until three years after Ostwald Ipatieff who never got it, and perhaps Haber and Mittasch as great or greater. 

Sabatier, Paul (1854-1941) French chemist he greatly facilitated the industrial use of hydrogenation. Nobel Prize in 1912. 

Sabatier, Paul (1854-1941) French chemist whose most important work was in the catalyzed hydrogenation of unsaturated organic compounds. This found wide industrial applications, the best known of which is the hydrogenation of vegetable oils to produce margarine and other butter substitutes. He was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in chemistry. 

Victor Grignard (1871-1935) was professor of chemistry at University of Nancy and then the University of Lyon. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (jointly with Sabatier, the latter for catalytic hydrogenation studies). 

Kagan HB (2012) Victor Grignard and Paul Sabatier two showcase laureates of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Angew Chem Int Ed 51 7376-7382... 

The net result of this process is to reduce an alkene to an alkane. Paul Sabatier was the first to demonstrate that catalytic hydrogenation could serve as a general procedure for reducing alkenes, and for his pioneering work, he was a corecipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 

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