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Science 28 May 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5419, pp. 1477 - 1479
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5419.1477
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HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS:
Enhanced: Toward Greener Chemistry

R. Thomas Baker and William Tumas

Chemical manufacturing increasingly has to take environmental concerns into account, and chemical processes have to be designed accordingly. Baker and Tumas (page 1477) discuss recent developments in the area of homogeneous catalysis, where so-called biphasic catalysis is aiding separation of product and catalyst and facilitating catalyst recovery.

The authors are in the Los Alamos Catalysis Initiative and the Chemical Science and Technology Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. E-mail: weg{at}lanl.gov and tumas{at}lanl.gov

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