Abstract
It would be a mistake to consign C 1 chemistry to the indefinite future, to a time when crude oil becomes a prohibitively expensive feedstock and relatively cheap coal fills the void. Although that will happen eventually, C 1 chemistry already has become a major research and development topic around the world, a growing, if embryonic, commercial reality, and a promising means to reacquire stability in the chemical industry. Despite disagreement over how far C 1 chemistry has come and where it will go, money and manpower have been allocated to R&D, commercial development, and at least two major industrial complexes. The current assessment and possible future directions that C 1 chemistry might take were explored by the American Chemical Society's Division of Petroleum Chemistry at the ACS national meeting in New York City last month. In addition to details of many particular C 1 R&D projects provided by developers, overviews were presented by Monsanto senior fellow Denis Forster and ...
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