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Cover Picture: Catalytic Processes that Changed the World: 100 Years Max‐Planck‐Institut für Kohlenforschung (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 33/2014)
Author(s) -
List Benjamin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201406847
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , polymer science , art history , physics , library science , chemistry , engineering , history , computer science , mechanical engineering
Some of the most important chemical discoveries of the last 100 years were made at the Max‐Planck‐Institut für Kohlenforschung (MPI) in Mülheim an der Ruhr, which was founded in 1914—100 years ago—as the Kaiser‐Wilhelm‐Institut für Kohlenforschung. A look at history illustrates the scientific potential of the Mülheim basic research: In 1925, F. Fischer and H. Tropsch filed a patent for the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis—gasoline from coal. The low‐pressure approach to polyethylene was patented in 1953 by K. Ziegler, H. Breil, E. Holzkamp, and H. Martin. Ziegler was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1963 for this work. The decaffeination of coffee by supercritical carbon dioxide was patented in 1970 by K. Zosel. This Issue, starting with an Editorial by B. List on page 8528 ff., contains contributions from researchers, who have had a close connection in one way or another with this extraordinary Institution during their scientific careers. A summary of the history of the “KoFo‐MPI” is given in the Essay by M. Reetz on page 8562 ff.