Forty years of applied catalysis research at Xiamen University and its interaction with fundamental catalysis research

This paper gives a concise, chronological review of 40 years of applied cat alysis research done at Xiamen University, in acetylene and olefin conversi on, nitrogen fixation, and in more detail CO hydrogenation to methanol and ethanol, oxidative coupling of methane, and oxidative dehydrogenation of li ght alkanes; some references of more recent work in other areas related to applied catalysis are also given. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.