Excerpt from Catalysis in Organic Chemistry
By his remarkable investigations on catalysis, Professor Sabatier has opened up new fields rich in scientific interest and fruitful in technical results. Catalytic hydrogenation will ever be an important chapter in chemistry. He is a teacher as well as an investigator and has done an important service in collecting from scattered sources a vast amount of information about catalysis and bringing the facts together in convenient and suggestive form in his book. I deem it a privilege to render his masterly work more accessible to English-speaking chemists.
The text and the unsigned footnotes represent Professor Sabatier's work as closely as I can make them. I have retained the characteristic italics. I have added a few notes which are signed by those responsible for them. In this connection I wish to thank my friends, among them Dr. Gibbs, Dr. Ittner, Dr. Adkins, and Dr. Richardson, for assistance, Professor Gomberg for verifying a number of Russian references, and Professor H. H. Lloyd for aid in proofreading.
To the chapter on the theory of catalysis, I have added an illuminating extension by Professor Bancroft, Chairman of the Committee on Catalysis of the National Research Council. In order to make the vast amount of detailed information in the book more readily available, I have prepared a subject index of some seven thousand entries and an author index of about eleven hundred names.
It is a pleasure to present a brief sketch of his life and abounding activities.
I have taken great pains to check the hundreds of references, but doubtless errors will be found. Corrections of any kind will be appreciated if sent me.
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