{"product_id":"a-life-of-magic-chemistry-9781118840030","title":"A Life of Magic Chemistry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe autobiography of a Nobel Prize winner, this book tells us about George Olah''s fascinating research into extremely strong superacids and how it yielded the common term magic acids. Olah guides us through his long and remarkable journey, from Budapest to Cleveland to Los Angeles, with a stopover in Stockholm. This updated autobiography of a Nobel Prize winner George A. Olah:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eChronicles the distinguished career of a chemist whose work in a broad range of chemistry areas, and most notably that in methane chemistry, led to technologies that impact the processing and utility of alternative fuels\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIs based on Olah''s work on extremely strong superacids and how they yielded the common term, magic acids\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDetails events since the publication of the first edition in 2000\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInspires readers with details on Dr. Olah''s successful recent research on methanol, intended to help provide a solution to the oil problem\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \"well-written book\",\"Olah�s story is made very human by its conversational tone and by his warm personality.\"(\u003cb\u003eIsis 01\/12\/2016\u003cb\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Perspectives on Science 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Chemistry: The Multifaceted Central Science 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Growing Up in Hungary and Turning to Chemistry 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Early Research and Teaching: Departing the Shadow of Emil Fischer 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Move to North America: Industrial Experience While Pursuing the Elusive Cations of Carbon 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Return to Academia—The Cleveland Years: Carbocations, Magic Acid, and Superacid Chemistry 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Moving to Los Angeles: Hydrocarbon Research and Building the Loker Institute 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 The Nonclassical Ion Controversy and Its Significance 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 From Kekul´e’s Four-Valent Carbon to Five- and Higher Coordinate Hypercarbon Chemistry 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 The Nobel Prize: Learning to Live with It and Not Rest on Laurels 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Research in Post-Nobel Years: From Superacids to Superelectrophiles 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Renewable Carbon Chemistry: Anthropogenic Chemical Cycle with CO2 Capture and Recycling to Methanol 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Rendering Methanol, A Renewable Carbon Source and Fuel: Direct and Regenerative Methanol Fuel Cell 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 The Concept and Development of the Methanol Economy 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 Gone My Way 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 Concluding Remarks 294\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix My Previous Books for References and Additional Reading 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCurriculum Vitae of George Andrew Olah 300\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 306\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406932320599,"sku":"9781118840030","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-life-of-magic-chemistry-9781118840030","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}