This site is devoted to the research project developing in
National T. Shevchenko University (Kiev Ukraine)
P.&M. Curie University (Paris, France) and
Karakalpak State University (Nukus, Uzbekistan)

in the frame of NATO Science for Peace program

The project title:

Superacid solids

The Project duration 1999 - 2002

The project co-directors:  
J. Fraissard (France);
V. Zaitsev (Ukraine);
K. Uteniazov (Uzbekistan)

Major Objectives

To develop a new generation of catalysts based on covalently bonded solid superacids that can replace existing technologically unfavourable and environmentally harmful liquid acidic catalysts for isomerisation of short paraffin’s in petrol

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Collaborating Institutions:

•  Institute of Physical Chemistry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev Ukraine

• Paton Institute of electric welding, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev Ukraine

• National Medical University, Kiev Ukraine

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