Specific scientific merit and a wealth of information make the book extremely valuable, like other volumes in the series.

(from preface)
The memory of the recent 7th International Congress on Catalysis in Tokyo is still with us. It was one of the best organized and most flawless and efficient international meetings we have experienced. The world of catalytic science owes many thanks to the Japanese organizers and hosts of the Congress.
The Congress radiated the glow of a very active growth of catalytic science and research around the entire world. There is an obviously mounting recognition of the importance to society as a whole of this broad field of molecular science. Man has recognized more explicitly than before the importance of the skills of selective conversion of molecular matter, to both the preservation and further evolution of man's civilization...