Bond-Energies and Isomerization

Abstract

DURING th pasj fnree years, the Universities of Manchesipttifld Leeds have held a number of meetings lcuss subjects of joint interest to industrial && academic research workers. These meetingt whicm yegan on a small scale-have in popularity and scope, as urajjffced b & ie attendance of some hundred and seventy chemists from industry and the universities at the conference on “Friedel-Crafts Catalysts and Polymerisation” held in the University of Manchester in September last year1, and more recently by an attendance of two hundred at a conference on “Bond-Energies and Isomerisation” held in the Chemistry Department of the University of Manchester on August 31. In welcoming the guests to this conference, Prof. M. Polanyi expressed his appreciation of the enthusiastic response made by industrial firms in these experiments designed to attain a closer co-operation between the universities and industry in problems of wide general interest to both.