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Platinum Metals Review, April 2008, 52, (2)

E-ISSN 1471-0676

This quarter's articles

Safer, Faster and Cleaner Reactions Using Encapsulated Metal Catalysts and Microwave Heating

M. R. Pitts

Reaxa Ltd., Hexagon Tower, Blackley, Manchester M9 8ZS, U.K.;

Practical New Strategies for Immobilising Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes: Part I

Ileana Dragutan*

Valerian Dragutan**

Institute of Organic Chemistry “Costin D. Nenitescu”, Romanian Academy, 202B Spl. Independentei, PO Box 35-108, 060023 Bucharest, Romania
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“Green Chemistry and Catalysis”

BY ROGER A. SHELDON, ISABEL ARENDS and ULF HANEFELD (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2007, 448 pages, ISBN 978-3-527-30715-9, £95.00, €142.50, U.S.$190.00

Reviewed by Duncan Macquarrie

Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.;

A Disordered Copper-Palladium Alloy Used as a Cathode Material

Philippe Poizot

Lydia Laffont-Dantras

LRCS, UMR 6007, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 33 rue Saint-Leu, 80039 Amiens Cedex, France

Jacques Simonet

Laboratoire MaSCE, UMR 6226, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France;

Dalton Discussion 10: Applications of Metals in Medicine and Healthcare

Reviewed by Christian G. Hartinger

Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;
and University of Vienna, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Währinger Str. 42, A-1090 Vienna, Austria;

Platinum as a Reference Electrode in Electrochemical Measurements

Kasem K. Kasem*

Stephanie Jones

Department of Natural, Information, and Mathematical Science, Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, IN, 46904-9003, U.S.A.
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Faraday Discussion 138: Nanoalloys – From Theory to Applications

Reviewed by Geoffrey C. Bond

59 Nightingale Road, Rickmansworth WD3 7BU, U.K.;

Challenges in Catalysis for Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals

Reviewed by Chris Barnard

Johnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, U.K.;

The Periodic Table and the Platinum Group Metals

W. P. Griffith

Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.;

Frederick A. Lewis

Ted B. Flanagan

Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, U.S.A.;

Fuel Cell Today Industry Review 2008

ABSTRACTS: April 2008

NEW PATENTS: April 2008

FINAL ANALYSIS: April 2008

Tim Hyde

Johnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, U.K.;

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