autobiographical reflections including post-Nobel Prize years and the methanol economy /
George A. Olah with Thomas Mathew
Updated second edition
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Perspectives on Science -- Chemistry: The Multifaceted Central Science -- Growing Up in Hungary and Turning to Chemistry -- Early Research and Teaching: Departing the Shadow of Emil Fischer -- Move to North America: Industrial Experience While Pursuing the Elusive Cations of Carbon -- Return to Academia-The Cleveland Years: Carbocations, Magic Acid, and Superacid Chemistry -- Moving to Los Angeles: Hydrocarbon Research and Building the Loker Institute -- The Nonclassical Ion Controversy and Its Significance -- From Kekulé's Four-Valent Carbon to Five- and Higher Coordinate Hypercarbon Chemistry -- The Nobel Prize: Learning to Live with It and Not Rest on Laurels -- Research in Post-Nobel Years: From Superacids to Superelectrophiles -- Renewable Carbon Chemistry: Anthropogenic Chemical Cycle with CO₂ Capture and Recycling to Methanol -- Rendering Methanol, A Renewable Carbon Source and Fuel: Direct and Regenerative Methanol Fuel Cell -- The Concept and Development of the Methanol Economy -- Gone My Way -- Concluding Remarks