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Overview

George A. Olah was affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their scientific career was primarily connected to this institution, which served as a base for their research activities and academic contributions.

Throughout their career, Olah did not have frequently co-authored partners or consistent publication venues recorded in the provided data. Similarly, no recent paper titles, publication years, or venues were available to detail the specifics of their research output.

There were no records indicating specific fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work attributed to George A. Olah in the current data. Likewise, no entries were provided for book publications or awards won during their lifetime.

As the scientist is deceased, the information is presented in past tense, reflecting on their professional background as documented. Due to the limitations in the data, the focus remains on their institutional association rather than detailed scientific achievements or legacy.

Best Publications

  • Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy

    George A. Olah

  • Chemical recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol and dimethyl ether: from greenhouse gas to renewable, environmentally carbon neutral fuels and synthetic hydrocarbons.

    George A. Olah;Alain Goeppert;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • Recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol and derived products – closing the loop

    Alain Goeppert;Miklos Czaun;John-Paul Jones;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • Friedel-Crafts and related reactions

    George A. Olah

  • Anthropogenic Chemical Carbon Cycle for a Sustainable Future

    George A. Olah;G. K. Surya Prakash;Alain Goeppert

  • Air as the renewable carbon source of the future: an overview of CO2 capture from the atmosphere

    Alain Goeppert;Miklos Czaun;G. K. Surya Prakash;George A. Olah

  • Nitration : methods and mechanisms

    George A. Olah;Ripudaman Malhotra;Subhash C. Narang

  • Synthetic methods and reactions. 63. Pyridinium poly(hydrogen fluoride) (30% pyridine-70% hydrogen fluoride): a convenient reagent for organic fluorination reactions

    George A. Olah;John T. Welch;Yashwant D. Vankar;Mosatomo Nojima

  • Towards Oil Independence Through Renewable Methanol Chemistry

    George A. Olah

  • Synthetic methods and reactions. 62. Transformations with chlorotrimethylsilane/sodium iodide, a convenient in situ iodotrimethylsilane reagent

    George A. Olah;Subhash C. Narang;B. G. Balaram Gupta;Ripudaman Malhotra

  • Friedel-Crafts chemistry

    George A. Olah;Daniel J. Donovan;Henry C. Lin

  • Synthetic methods and reactions. 141. Fluoride-induced trifluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds with trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane (TMS-CF3). A trifluoromethide equivalent

    G. K. Surya Prakash;Ramesh Krishnamurti;George A. Olah

  • Aromatic substitution. XXVIII. Mechanism of electrophilic aromatic substitutions

    George A. Olah

  • Conversion of CO2 from Air into Methanol Using a Polyamine and a Homogeneous Ruthenium Catalyst

    Jotheeswari Kothandaraman;Alain Goeppert;Miklos Czaun;George A. Olah

  • Carbon Dioxide Capture from the Air Using a Polyamine Based Regenerable Solid Adsorbent

    Alain Goeppert;Miklos Czaun;Robert B. May;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy

    G. K. Surya Prakash;George Olah;Alain Goeppert

  • Advances in direct oxidation methanol fuel cells

    S. Surampudi;S. R. Narayanan;E. Vamos;H. Frank

  • Iodotrimethylsilane—a versatile synthetic reagent

    George A. Olah;Subhash C. Narang

  • Perfluorinated Resinsulfonic Acid (Nafion-H®) Catalysis in Synthesis

    George A. Olah;Pradeep S. Iyer;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • Super acids. III. Protonation of alkanes and intermediacy of alkanonium ions, pentacoordinated carbon cations of CH5+ type. Hydrogen exchange, protolytic cleavage, hydrogen abstraction; polycondensation of methane, ethane, 2,2-dimethylpropane and 2,2,3,3-tetramethylbutane in FSO3H-SbF5

    George A. Olah;Gilles Klopman;Richard H. Schlosberg

Frequent Co-Authors

G. K. Surya Prakash
G. K. Surya Prakash University of Southern California
Alain Goeppert
Alain Goeppert University of Southern California
Sekharipuram R. Narayanan
Sekharipuram R. Narayanan University of Southern California
Thomas Mathew
Thomas Mathew University of Southern California
Chuanfa Ni
Chuanfa Ni Chinese Academy of Sciences
Béla Török
Béla Török University of Massachusetts Boston
Ralf Haiges
Ralf Haiges University of Southern California
J. Martin Bollinger
J. Martin Bollinger Pennsylvania State University
Paul v. R. Schleyer
Paul v. R. Schleyer University of Georgia
Árpád Molnár
Árpád Molnár University of Szeged

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