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- Editors:
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Georges Jannes
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CERIA/Meurice Institute, Brussels, Belgium
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Vincent Dubois
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CERIA/Meurice Institute, Brussels, Belgium
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Georges Jannes, Vincent Dubois
Pages 1-2
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The Place of Heterogeneous Catalysis in the Chirality Field
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- Hans-Ulrich Blaser, Benoît Pugin
Pages 33-57
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Hydrogenation Systems: Toward A Better Understanding
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- Tsutomu Osawa, Akira Tai, Yoshimi Imachi, Seiji Takasaki
Pages 75-81
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- Tadao Harada, Tsutomu Osawa
Pages 83-88
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- Gy Göndös, Gy Wittmann, M. Bartók, J. C. Orr
Pages 89-93
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- A. Baiker, T. Mallat, B. Minder, O. Schwalm, K. E. Simons, J. Weber
Pages 95-103
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- P. J. Collier, T. Goulding, J. A. Iggo, R. Whyman
Pages 105-110
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- W. Reschetilowski, U. Böhmer, J. Wiehl
Pages 111-118
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Hydrogenation Systems: Broadening the Scope
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Front Matter
Pages 119-119
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- A. Tungler, T. Tarnai, T. Máthé, J. Petró, R. A. Sheldon
Pages 121-133
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- H. Hönig, R. Rogi-Kohlenprath, H. Weber
Pages 135-139
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- K. Nasar, M. Besson, P. Gallezot, F. Fache, M. Lemaire
Pages 141-145
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- P. Gamez, F. Fache, M. Lemaire, P. Mangeney
Pages 147-149
About this book
It was a great honor for us to organize ChiCat, a symposium devoted to Chiral Reactions in Heterogeneous Catalysis and to be the hostsofmore than 120 scientists coming from everywhere in the industrialized world, to celebrate together one century of existence ofInstitut Meurice. This school was established in 1892when an industrial chemist, named Albert Meurice, decided to educate practical chemists according to the perceived needs ofthe industry ofthat time. This is exactly what we are still trying to do. It is the reason why, thirty years ago, we started a research activity in catalysis, and why we progressively devote this research to the applications of catalysis in the field of fine chemicals. In this respect, we are very close to another initiative of Albert Meurice, who started the first production of synthetic pharmaceuticals in Belgium during World War I. This business later on became a part ofthe Belgian corporation DCB, still very active in pharmaceuticals today. The school created by Albert Meurice merged in the fifties with another school that had been created to meet the same needs in the field of the food industries, mainly distilleries and breweries. This merger was done in the frame of the establishment of CERIA. For people in catalysis, ceria stands for cerium oxide, but for those who engineered the concept, CERIA stood for Center of Education and Research for the Food and Chemical Industries.