A New Method for the Preparation of Oxide Catalysts for the Carbon Monoxide Oxidation.

Abstract

1. Methods have been developed for the low temperature oxidation of pyrophoric metals.2. The oxidized metals have been tested as catalysts for the carbon monoxide oxidation. They have been found to be comparable in activity to the most carefully purified precipitated oxides.

The Physical Chemistry of Hopcalite Catalysts.

“…A structure of the maltose type is at present accepted, although Hudson and coworkers have recently demurred (31). The contention of the British school of chemists,-Haworth, Hirst, and coworkers (1,24,21,13,25,23,26,15,18,14,22,19,20,16,17,29,30),-that amylose is a polymer of glucopyranose units in the maltose (a) linkage, appears to be well founded…”

Liquid ammonia research in 1934—A review

“…They believe that the conversion of sodium to sodium amide is catalyzed by ferric nitrate. Loane (60) has shown that ferric nitrate is reduced by sodium in liquid ammonia at its boiling point to very finely divided and highly reactive metallic iron. Since metallic iron is known to be an active catalyst for this reaction (61), it is highly probable that the catalytic influence observed by Nieuwland and co-workers is due, not to ferric nitrate, but to the freshly precipitated iron.…”