oa Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts

Over three hundred participants met in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, at the beginning of September 1978 to attend a Second International Symposium, sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the Division de Catalyse of the Société Chimique de Belgique, to discuss the scientific bases for the preparation of heterogeneous catalysts. Papers described the preparation of active oxides, carbides and metals; a considerable fraction concerned the platinum group metals and a brief review of some of these is now presented.