The Polyurethanes Book
Contributors: David Randall (Editor); Steve Lee (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: May 23, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780470850411
First sentence: Although the reaction between isocyanate and hydroxyl compounds was originally identified in the 19th Century, the foundations of the polyurethanes industry were laid in the late 1930s with the discovery, by Otto Bayer, of the chemistry of the polyaddition reaction between diisocyanate and diols to form polyurethane.