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July 2010

PGM Protection for Glass Making

A Danner sleeve coated with platinum and then fully polished, used to make glass tubing for pharmaceutical components.

Catalytic Air Pollution Control

Cutaway view of a catalysed soot filter (CSF) mounted directly on the turbocharger of a passenger car diesel engine (Image copyright Martyn V. Twigg)

"The Catalyst Technical Handbook"

Johnson Matthey has published an updated edition of "The Catalyst Technical Handbook". It contains data on heterogeneous and homogeneous pgm catalysts and their reactions, chiral catalysis and non-leachable polymer-linked catalysts. Also included is information on sponge metals and PRICAT support base metal catalysts. The handbook is available in electronic or print formats. For a free copy please contact Connie Schlegel.

Alfa Aesar 2008-2009 Catalog of Research Chemicals, Metals and Materials

Request your copy by completing the Request & View Literature form.

The catalog offers nearly 30,000 products available from stock. Over 3000 new products include novel fine organics, nanomaterials, fuel cell catalysts and components, pure metals, alloys, analytical standards and catalyst/ligand kits. There is a new 14-page introduction to the Precious Metal Compounds and Catalysts section, by catalyst expert Martyn Twigg. It briefly covers the history of precious metal catalysis, and there are sections on general catalytic requirements for selected applications.

PGM Catalyst Kits

Johnson Matthey produce three catalyst kits of research amounts of catalyst, aimed at small scale working in academia and industry. Joanne Frankham (U.K. and Europe) and Connie Schlegel (U.S.A. and Asia) will provide information.

Asymmetric Hydrogenation Ligand/Catalyst Kit

A 12-piece kit of 8 ligands (500 mg each) and 4 catalysts (100 mg each) to make catalysts.

Advanced Coupling Kit

A 9-piece kit (1000 mg each) for C-C coupling reactions, aminations, alpha ketone arylation, etc., using sterically hindered substrates, aryl chlorides and electron-rich substrates. A guide is included.

Heterogeneous Catalyst Screening Kit

Contains 40 samples.

Research Chemicals

Small to medium quantities of precious metal salts and solutions are available for early stage R&D from Alfa Aesar. Packs are sized from grams up to semi-bulk quantities.

Who We Are

Jonathan J. Butler

Jonathan Butler was born in Wigan, England. He is the Publications Manager at Johnson Matthey, responsible for managing Platinum Metals Review and writing Johnson Matthey's reports on the platinum group metals markets. He holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in Geography and MSc in Geomorphology from the University of Oxford.

Sara A. Coles

Sara Coles was born in Southport, North West England. She is the Assistant Editor on Platinum Metals Review. She holds an MChem (Hons) in Chemistry with French Studies from the University of Lancaster.

Margery Ryan

Margery Ryan was born in Pretoria, South Africa. She is the Editorial Assistant on Platinum Metals Review. She holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and has previously worked in refining and mineral processing at Impala Platinum, South Africa. She joined Platinum Metals Review from Johnson Matthey Noble Metals, where she had been working as a Laboratory Technician since 2006.

Keith W. P. White

Keith White was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire. He is the Senior Information Scientist on Platinum Metals Review. He holds a BSc (Hons) and PhD in Chemistry from the Polytechnic of North London. He was previously the Research & Development Manager at PMD (UK) Ltd, and before that a Senior Research Technologist with Cookson Group at the Cookson Technology Centre.