It is now generally recognized that the processes involved in a chemical reaction are frequently not as simple as the stoichiometric equation would indicate, but consist rather of a series of elementary reactions of simple order; the over-all reaction observed…

The potentialities of catalysis were foreseen by Ostwald when he prophesied that a scientific knowledge and control of catalytic phenomena would lead to immeasurable results technically (1). This prophecy has been fulfilled, for to-day the importance of catalysis in science…

In a Ph.D. Thesis submitted in 1946 from this Laboratory, Tasker prepared in pure form the series of the monoethyl ethers of the polyethylene glycols, R(OCH2CH2)n0H, where n was 1, 2 or 3. The tendency of several of these compounds…