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Olah  \nA JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION  \nNew York • Chichester • Weinheim • Brisbane • Singapore • Toronto  \nThis book is printed on acid-free paper. 􀀁  \nCopyright 􀀂 2001 by Wiley-Interscience. All rights reserved.  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada.  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923,(978) 750-8400, fax (978) 750-4744 . Requests to the Publisher for  \npermission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012,(212) 850-6011, fax (212) 850-6008, E-Mail: PERMREQ @ WILEY.COM.  \nFor ordering and customer service call 1-800-CALL-WILEY.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:  \nOlah, George A. (George Andrew), 1927–  \nA life of magic chemistry : autobiographical reflections of a nobel prize winner / George A. Olah.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-471-15743-0 (cloth : alk. paper)  \n1. Olah, George A. (George Andrew), 1927–. 2. Chemists—United States—Biography.  \nI. Title.  \nQD22.043 A3 2000  \n540 􀀂 .92—dc21 [B] 00-043638  \nPrinted in the United States of America.  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nTo Judy, who made it all possible  \nMy grandchildren, Peter and Kaitlyn (July 1999) .  \nContents  \nPreface ix  \nChapter 1. Introduction 1  \nChapter 2. Perspectives on Science 4  \nChapter 3. Chemistry: The Multifaceted Central Science 21  \nChapter 4. Growing up in Hungary and Turning to Chemistry 38  \nChapter 5. Early Research and Teaching: Departing the  \nShadow of Emil Fischer 51  \nChapter 6. Move to North America: Industrial Experience While Pursuing the Elusive Cations of Carbon 64  \nChapter. 7. Return to Academia—The Cleveland Years:  \nCarbocations, Magic Acid, and Superacid Chemistry 84  \nChapter 8. Moving to Los Angeles: Building the Loker Institute—Hydrocarbons and Hydrocarbon Research 108  \nChapter 9. ‘‘Every Scientist Needs Good Enemies’’:  \nThe Nonclassical Ion Controversy and Its Significance 137  \nChapter 10. From Kekul’s Four-Valent Carbon to Five-and Higher-Coordinate Hypercarbon Chemistry 153  \nChapter 11. The Nobel Prize: Learning to Live with It and  \nNot Rest on Laurels 169  \nChapter 12. Post-Nobel Years: From Superacids to Superelectrophiles 188  \nChapter 13. Societal and Environmental Challenges of Hydrocarbons: Direct Methane Conversion, Methanol Fuel Cell, and Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide 205  \nChapter 14. Gone My Way 222  \nAppendix My Previous Books for References and  \nAdditional Reading 259  \nIndex 261  \nPreface  \nMy wife Judy, my children, and my friends urged me for some time to write about my life and the fascinating period of science I was lucky to be part of. For years I resisted, mainly because I was still fully occupied with research, teaching, and various other commitments. I also felt it was not yet time to look back instead of ahead. However, I slowly began to realize that, because none of us knows how much time is still left, it might be ill advised to say ‘‘it is not yet the right time.’’ I therefore started to collect material and to organize my thoughts for a book.  \nIt soon became clear that this project would be very different from any writing I had done before. 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