oa Catalysts Play a Major Role in Development

The second Anglo-Dutch Symposium on Catalysis and Organometallic Chemistry was held on the 26th September 1997, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The symposium was attended by more man 80 participants from industry and universities in Britain and The Netherlands. A series of lectures was given on catalysis and its applications, and there were more than thirty poster presentations. This report highlights some aspects involving the platinum group metals.