Chemicals from.coal tar: .A story of missed opportunities

摘要

The history of development of the modern chemical industry can be traced to coal. Till the discovery of oil and the technologies for refining it were developed in the early part of the last century, coal provided many of the basic chemicals produced. All this changed in the mid-.90s with the emergence of the modern petrochemical industry and coal-based chemistry was pushed out of the spotlight. Until now!