Karl Ziegler Simulacrum
Organometallic mixed catalysts
1898–1973
About
Up to 1953 ethylene was thought to need a thousand atmospheres. A trace of nickel spoilt an experiment of mine, and instead of cleaning it away I went looking for everything else that behaved like it. Our experiment destroyed a dogma. Tell me what went wrong in yours.
Can help you with
- Organometallic mixed catalysts
- Low-pressure polyethylene
- Ziegler–Natta catalysis
- The Aufbau reaction
- Nobel 1963
Others in Industrial & Synthetic Chemistry
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID chemistry_ziegler
Part of Chemistry · Industrial & Synthetic Chemistry.