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Elmer Keiser Bolton (1886-1968) was a prominent United States and one of the first Industrial Research directors. He formulated many basic concepts for directing industrial research at E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. During his tenure DuPont developed synthetic dyes, floatation chemicals, rubber chemicals, neoprene rubber, nylon fiber and Teflon.

Personal life Elmer Keiser Bolton was born June 23, 1886 in Frankford, Pennsylvania the oldest of two brothers. His father ran the furniture store on Main Street and both he and his brother attended public school in Frankford and went on to college. Bolton went to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and took the Classical Course, receiving a B.A. Degree in 1908. From there he went to Harvard University, receiving his A.M. degree in 1910 and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1913. His thesis advisor was Charles L. Jackson and his dissertation concerned the chemistry of periodoquinones.

Several other prominent contemporaries of Bolton's at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore, James B. Sumner and James Bryant Conant. Adams was particularly influential through Bolton's career. They shared diverse interests, yet a drive for accomplishment in organic chemistry. In later years Adams had significant influence on Bolton's ideas about industrial support of chemical research and university students.

In 1913 Bolton won the Sheldon Fellowship, which he used to work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut outside of Berlin, Germany, Germany for two years with Professor Richard Willstätter. Here he worked on anthocyanins, a major program for Willstätter, and published three papers on isolation and structures of anthocyanin pigments. Willstätter, apparently impressed by Bolton's ability but frustrated by his tendency to make arithmetic mistakes, commented "You must have been a bank teller." To his surprise Bolton replied that he had been a bank teller, this was how he paid his way through college.

Bolton was very impressed by Willstätter's careful, logical approach to tackling a research problem. He felt that this was the result of good training in the German university system. He also observed the relationship between German universities and industry, for which there was no counterpart in the United States. Another aspect of German research that impressed Bolton was the effort to create artificial rubber. This work was significant to German industry, and later to the German war effort in World War II because Germany did not have ready access to sources of natural rubber. Also, the approach being used by the Germans undoubtedly lead to the development of neoprene rubber years later at DuPont Labs.

Bolton married Margarite L. Duncan in 1916 and they had three children, a daughter and two sons. He retired from DuPont after a distinguished career in 1951, but continued to follow the scientific literature. He died July 30, 1968 at the age of eighty-two.

World War I and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Up to the onset of World War I (1914) most organic compounds had been imported from Europe, but disruptions caused by the War presented an opportunity for United States chemical companies to become established in this area, and to meet a wartime need. When Bolton returned from Germany in 1915 he discovered United States organic chemists struggling to develop methods for manufacturing these compounds. The DuPont needed chemist and hired Bolton in 1915.

Bolton joined the Chemical Department at the Experimental Station outside Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware, where most of DuPont's research was conducted. Being groomed for advancement, he started working on the synthesis of glycerol. By 1916 Bolton was selected to lead the Dye Group that was newly formed to research the synthesis of dyes. The United States had little knowledge of dye manufacture at this time, so later in 1916 Bolton traveled to England to learn about British technology in this area, and upon return he was assigned to the Wilmington Office to be advisor on dyes and intermediates. In 1918 he transferred to the Dyestuffs Department and was assistant general manager of the Lodi Works where silk colorants were made. In 1919 he returned to the Chemical Department as manager of the Organic Division. During this time he learned a lot about developing manufacturing processes and developed two principles; that high priority must be given to cost and time effectiveness of research, and that a manufacturing process should be perfected using pure materials then later adapted to use materials available to the plant. Bolton's friend from Harvard, Roger Adams shared much of Roger Adams#World War I in his work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In 1922 DuPont reorganized its research by dividing the entire research enterprise into four parts, each assigned to one of its four production areas. Bolton was made director of research for the Dyestuffs Department where his ability in this capacity was quickly realized. Dye manufacture requires the synthesis of a large number of intermediate compounds, and Bolton realized these could be used in many activities outside the Dyestuffs Department. By 1923 his lab was working on accelerators for manufacture of synthetic rubber and soon after extended the research to include antioxidants#Antioxidants in fuels for gasoline and rubber, floatation agents, insecticides, seed disinfectants, and large scale manufacture of tetra-ethyl lead#History. The Stevenson Act and Synthetic Rubber In the early 1920s the supply and demand of natural rubber became a concern in international trade. In November of 1922 England enacted the Stevenson Act that was intended to protect rubber producers by restricting production. This caused a great deal of concern in the United States because an expanding supply of rubber was needed to support the growing number of automobiles in use. Bolton saw this as an opportune time to start research on synthetic rubber. However, research did not begin in earnest until 1925 when the high price of rubber was attracting considerable attention and other scientists such as Thomas Edison were also taking an interest in the problem.

Work on synthetic rubber began with the polymerization of butadiene obtained from the hydrogenation of diacetylene, and at first not much progress was made. At the end of 1925 Bolton met a chemist from University of Notre Dame named Julius Arthur Nieuwland who had discovered a way to polymerize acetylene using a cuprous oxide catalyst. Unfortunately the resulting polymer would explode when struck, but Bolton believed the process could be modified to produce a stable compound that would replace butadiene in the reaction. Bolton brought Nieuwland into the project as a consultant to DuPont, and Nieuwland taught the DuPont chemists how to use his catalyst. A continuous-flow reactor was developed that would produce a good yield of the stable polymer Bolton was looking for. However, while the polymer was highly chemical resistant, it degraded with exposure to light.

In 1927 DuPont's Chemical Director C.M.A. Stine persuaded the company to take on a fundamental research project for synthetic rubber and received $250,000 in funding for this purpose. In 1928 Wallace Carothers, an instructor at Harvard University was hired to lead the newly formed group. Bolton operated within this group and by 1929 had discovered that his polymer could be readily converted into 2-chlorobutadiene (choroprene) with a copper catalyzed addition of hydrogen chloride. This material was both chemical and light resistant, with the properties of a synthetic rubber.

The new material was announced at the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society on November 2, 1931, and was called Duprene (today it is called neoprene). By this time the Stevenson Act had been repealed and the Great Depression had begun. Rubber prices were low and the new material cost twenty times what natural rubber cost. Therefore it never became a substitute for natural rubber, but it did find commercial use in applications where a rubber compound was needed that was more resistant to oils and outdoor degradation. Applications of neoprene include: the Rigid-hulled inflatable boat; diving suits, and diveskins; gloves, balaclavas, sleepsack (BDSM), Knee high boots, wetsocks and other protective clothing; Stealth technology; plumbing fixtures; gaskets, hose (tubing)s, Seal (mechanical)s and belt (mechanical)s; foam (mousepad, wetsuit); brace (orthopaedic)s; and solid fuel rocket propellant (see AGM-114 Hellfire).

Synthetic Fibers When Wallace Carothers arrived at DuPont in 1928 one of the tasks his group took on was the development of synthetic fibers for textiles. At that time a number of natural polymers such as latex and celluloid were known and some synthetic polymers such as bakelite were also known and relatively common. The General Bakelite Company company was producing about 200,000 tons of Bakelite annually. Unfortunately the existing polymers could not be drawn into fibers and spun into thread, so the opportunity was to manufacture yarn from synthetic polymers to replace natural fibers such as cotton.

The approach taken by Carothers' group was to adapt known synthesises that produced short chain polymers to produce long chain molecules. The first break was finding that bifunctional esterification could produce long molecule chains which today are known as aliphatic polyesters, but at that time were called superpolymers. Then there was the key observation by Julian W, Hill in April, 1930 in which it was seen that the superpolymers could be drawn in the molten state to form thin, transparent fibers that were much stronger that the polymers were in the undrawn state. However, the superpolymers the group was able to synthesize either had too low a boiling point and insufficient chemical resistivity or had too high a melting point to be spun. By late 1932 the entire project was discontinued.

Bolton, now the Chemistry department director, refused to give up. Most likely he was aware of the re-discovery of polyethylene by Eric Fawcett and Reginald Gibson at Imperial Chemical Industries in 1933. In early 1934 Bolton urged Carothers to continue the research, and Carothers decided to take another look at polyamides.

Carothers surmised that the problem with the polyamides that had been made from ε-aminocaproic acid was due to cyclization reactions, so he replaced ε-aminocaproic acid with 9-aminononoic acid which would not cyclize. This produced results that were encouraging, so Carother's group prepared polyamides from a variety of compounds including amino acids, dibase acids and diamines. The leading candidate for development became 5/10 polyamide made from pentamethylenediamine and sebic acid. It had the right melting point, the desired properties in fiber form and could be spun without gel formation.

Bolton at this point made a bold and characteristically visionary decision. He decided that practical synthetic fibers could not be made from castor oil, the only practical source of sebacic acid. To use an agricultural product as a primary feedstock would mean the new synthetic material would have very similar mass production problems as existing natural fibers had. Instead he wanted to use benzene as the feedstock for making both adipic acid and hexamethylenediamine to make a 6/6 polyamide.

This polymer was first made early in 1935, and thanks to concurrent development of polyamine spinning technologies, could be spun into fibers. The fibers had high strength and elasticity, were insensitive to common solvents and melted at 263 °C, well above ironing temperatures.

Bolton insisted that every aspect of the synthesis of this polymer be thoroughly worked out in a pilot plant at the Experimental Station. He insisted that the development begin with pure materials then be adapted to use materials available to a plant in bulk.

On October 27, 1938 DuPont announced it would build a plant at Seaford, Delaware to make nylon, the world's first fully synthetic fiber. The Seaford plant was essentially a scaled up version of the pilot plant, and had remarkably trouble-free startup.

Summary Bolton is known for being a pioneering research director under whom many great inventions came into practical use. For example, with the invention of synthetic rubber Bolton recognized that synthetic rubber was a worthwhile undertaking and convinced DuPont to make an investment of time in developing it. He also recognized Father Nieuwland's work as a key advance toward synthesizing rubber, and that with a little work the method could be a useful intermediate step. Bolton also realized the importance of continuing the development after others had become discouraged, and got involved in the laboratory work to make sure the work was completed.

Wallace Carothers and Bolton's careers were intertwined for many years, and Bolton recognized Carothers as the real chemistry genius of the two of them. Bolton's strengths were recognizing good industrial research opportunities, motivating researchers and DuPont to accept the challenge, and ensuring that projects came to a meaningful conclusion. He recognized the importance of taking on projects that would open new product areas for DuPont and of executing the research in a timely and cost effective way that would move research ideas quickly into products.

Publications

Awards and honors Bucknell University: *Honorary D.Sc. degree (1932) *Board of Trustees (1937-1967) *Trustee Emeritus (1967-1968) *regional director (1936-1938) *director-at-large (1940-1943)

References

Categories Elmer Keiser Bolton (1886-1968) was a prominent United States and one of the first Industrial Research directors. He formulated many basic concepts for directing industrial research at E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. During his tenure DuPont developed synthetic dyes, floatation chemicals, rubber chemicals, neoprene rubber, nylon fiber and Teflon.

Personal life Elmer Keiser Bolton was born June 23, 1886 in Frankford, Pennsylvania the oldest of two brothers. His father ran the furniture store on Main Street and both he and his brother attended public school in Frankford and went on to college. Bolton went to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and took the Classical Course, receiving a B.A. Degree in 1908. From there he went to Harvard University, receiving his A.M. degree in 1910 and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1913. His thesis advisor was Charles L. Jackson and his dissertation concerned the chemistry of periodoquinones.

Several other prominent contemporaries of Bolton's at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore, James B. Sumner and James Bryant Conant. Adams was particularly influential through Bolton's career. They shared diverse interests, yet a drive for accomplishment in organic chemistry. In later years Adams had significant influence on Bolton's ideas about industrial support of chemical research and university students.

In 1913 Bolton won the Sheldon Fellowship, which he used to work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut outside of Berlin, Germany, Germany for two years with Professor Richard Willstätter. Here he worked on anthocyanins, a major program for Willstätter, and published three papers on isolation and structures of anthocyanin pigments. Willstätter, apparently impressed by Bolton's ability but frustrated by his tendency to make arithmetic mistakes, commented "You must have been a bank teller." To his surprise Bolton replied that he had been a bank teller, this was how he paid his way through college.

Bolton was very impressed by Willstätter's careful, logical approach to tackling a research problem. He felt that this was the result of good training in the German university system. He also observed the relationship between German universities and industry, for which there was no counterpart in the United States. Another aspect of German research that impressed Bolton was the effort to create artificial rubber. This work was significant to German industry, and later to the German war effort in World War II because Germany did not have ready access to sources of natural rubber. Also, the approach being used by the Germans undoubtedly lead to the development of neoprene rubber years later at DuPont Labs.

Bolton married Margarite L. Duncan in 1916 and they had three children, a daughter and two sons. He retired from DuPont after a distinguished career in 1951, but continued to follow the scientific literature. He died July 30, 1968 at the age of eighty-two.

World War I and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Up to the onset of World War I (1914) most organic compounds had been imported from Europe, but disruptions caused by the War presented an opportunity for United States chemical companies to become established in this area, and to meet a wartime need. When Bolton returned from Germany in 1915 he discovered United States organic chemists struggling to develop methods for manufacturing these compounds. The DuPont needed chemist and hired Bolton in 1915.

Bolton joined the Chemical Department at the Experimental Station outside Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware, where most of DuPont's research was conducted. Being groomed for advancement, he started working on the synthesis of glycerol. By 1916 Bolton was selected to lead the Dye Group that was newly formed to research the synthesis of dyes. The United States had little knowledge of dye manufacture at this time, so later in 1916 Bolton traveled to England to learn about British technology in this area, and upon return he was assigned to the Wilmington Office to be advisor on dyes and intermediates. In 1918 he transferred to the Dyestuffs Department and was assistant general manager of the Lodi Works where silk colorants were made. In 1919 he returned to the Chemical Department as manager of the Organic Division. During this time he learned a lot about developing manufacturing processes and developed two principles; that high priority must be given to cost and time effectiveness of research, and that a manufacturing process should be perfected using pure materials then later adapted to use materials available to the plant. Bolton's friend from Harvard, Roger Adams shared much of Roger Adams#World War I in his work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In 1922 DuPont reorganized its research by dividing the entire research enterprise into four parts, each assigned to one of its four production areas. Bolton was made director of research for the Dyestuffs Department where his ability in this capacity was quickly realized. Dye manufacture requires the synthesis of a large number of intermediate compounds, and Bolton realized these could be used in many activities outside the Dyestuffs Department. By 1923 his lab was working on accelerators for manufacture of synthetic rubber and soon after extended the research to include antioxidants#Antioxidants in fuels for gasoline and rubber, floatation agents, insecticides, seed disinfectants, and large scale manufacture of tetra-ethyl lead#History. The Stevenson Act and Synthetic Rubber In the early 1920s the supply and demand of natural rubber became a concern in international trade. In November of 1922 England enacted the Stevenson Act that was intended to protect rubber producers by restricting production. This caused a great deal of concern in the United States because an expanding supply of rubber was needed to support the growing number of automobiles in use. Bolton saw this as an opportune time to start research on synthetic rubber. However, research did not begin in earnest until 1925 when the high price of rubber was attracting considerable attention and other scientists such as Thomas Edison were also taking an interest in the problem.

Work on synthetic rubber began with the polymerization of butadiene obtained from the hydrogenation of diacetylene, and at first not much progress was made. At the end of 1925 Bolton met a chemist from University of Notre Dame named Julius Arthur Nieuwland who had discovered a way to polymerize acetylene using a cuprous oxide catalyst. Unfortunately the resulting polymer would explode when struck, but Bolton believed the process could be modified to produce a stable compound that would replace butadiene in the reaction. Bolton brought Nieuwland into the project as a consultant to DuPont, and Nieuwland taught the DuPont chemists how to use his catalyst. A continuous-flow reactor was developed that would produce a good yield of the stable polymer Bolton was looking for. However, while the polymer was highly chemical resistant, it degraded with exposure to light.

In 1927 DuPont's Chemical Director C.M.A. Stine persuaded the company to take on a fundamental research project for synthetic rubber and received $250,000 in funding for this purpose. In 1928 Wallace Carothers, an instructor at Harvard University was hired to lead the newly formed group. Bolton operated within this group and by 1929 had discovered that his polymer could be readily converted into 2-chlorobutadiene (choroprene) with a copper catalyzed addition of hydrogen chloride. This material was both chemical and light resistant, with the properties of a synthetic rubber.

The new material was announced at the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society on November 2, 1931, and was called Duprene (today it is called neoprene). By this time the Stevenson Act had been repealed and the Great Depression had begun. Rubber prices were low and the new material cost twenty times what natural rubber cost. Therefore it never became a substitute for natural rubber, but it did find commercial use in applications where a rubber compound was needed that was more resistant to oils and outdoor degradation. Applications of neoprene include: the Rigid-hulled inflatable boat; diving suits, and diveskins; gloves, balaclavas, sleepsack (BDSM), Knee high boots, wetsocks and other protective clothing; Stealth technology; plumbing fixtures; gaskets, hose (tubing)s, Seal (mechanical)s and belt (mechanical)s; foam (mousepad, wetsuit); brace (orthopaedic)s; and solid fuel rocket propellant (see AGM-114 Hellfire).

Synthetic Fibers When Wallace Carothers arrived at DuPont in 1928 one of the tasks his group took on was the development of synthetic fibers for textiles. At that time a number of natural polymers such as latex and celluloid were known and some synthetic polymers such as bakelite were also known and relatively common. The General Bakelite Company company was producing about 200,000 tons of Bakelite annually. Unfortunately the existing polymers could not be drawn into fibers and spun into thread, so the opportunity was to manufacture yarn from synthetic polymers to replace natural fibers such as cotton.

The approach taken by Carothers' group was to adapt known synthesises that produced short chain polymers to produce long chain molecules. The first break was finding that bifunctional esterification could produce long molecule chains which today are known as aliphatic polyesters, but at that time were called superpolymers. Then there was the key observation by Julian W, Hill in April, 1930 in which it was seen that the superpolymers could be drawn in the molten state to form thin, transparent fibers that were much stronger that the polymers were in the undrawn state. However, the superpolymers the group was able to synthesize either had too low a boiling point and insufficient chemical resistivity or had too high a melting point to be spun. By late 1932 the entire project was discontinued.

Bolton, now the Chemistry department director, refused to give up. Most likely he was aware of the re-discovery of polyethylene by Eric Fawcett and Reginald Gibson at Imperial Chemical Industries in 1933. In early 1934 Bolton urged Carothers to continue the research, and Carothers decided to take another look at polyamides.

Carothers surmised that the problem with the polyamides that had been made from ε-aminocaproic acid was due to cyclization reactions, so he replaced ε-aminocaproic acid with 9-aminononoic acid which would not cyclize. This produced results that were encouraging, so Carother's group prepared polyamides from a variety of compounds including amino acids, dibase acids and diamines. The leading candidate for development became 5/10 polyamide made from pentamethylenediamine and sebic acid. It had the right melting point, the desired properties in fiber form and could be spun without gel formation.

Bolton at this point made a bold and characteristically visionary decision. He decided that practical synthetic fibers could not be made from castor oil, the only practical source of sebacic acid. To use an agricultural product as a primary feedstock would mean the new synthetic material would have very similar mass production problems as existing natural fibers had. Instead he wanted to use benzene as the feedstock for making both adipic acid and hexamethylenediamine to make a 6/6 polyamide.

This polymer was first made early in 1935, and thanks to concurrent development of polyamine spinning technologies, could be spun into fibers. The fibers had high strength and elasticity, were insensitive to common solvents and melted at 263 °C, well above ironing temperatures.

Bolton insisted that every aspect of the synthesis of this polymer be thoroughly worked out in a pilot plant at the Experimental Station. He insisted that the development begin with pure materials then be adapted to use materials available to a plant in bulk.

On October 27, 1938 DuPont announced it would build a plant at Seaford, Delaware to make nylon, the world's first fully synthetic fiber. The Seaford plant was essentially a scaled up version of the pilot plant, and had remarkably trouble-free startup.

Summary Bolton is known for being a pioneering research director under whom many great inventions came into practical use. For example, with the invention of synthetic rubber Bolton recognized that synthetic rubber was a worthwhile undertaking and convinced DuPont to make an investment of time in developing it. He also recognized Father Nieuwland's work as a key advance toward synthesizing rubber, and that with a little work the method could be a useful intermediate step. Bolton also realized the importance of continuing the development after others had become discouraged, and got involved in the laboratory work to make sure the work was completed.

Wallace Carothers and Bolton's careers were intertwined for many years, and Bolton recognized Carothers as the real chemistry genius of the two of them. Bolton's strengths were recognizing good industrial research opportunities, motivating researchers and DuPont to accept the challenge, and ensuring that projects came to a meaningful conclusion. He recognized the importance of taking on projects that would open new product areas for DuPont and of executing the research in a timely and cost effective way that would move research ideas quickly into products.

Publications

Awards and honors Bucknell University: *Honorary D.Sc. degree (1932) *Board of Trustees (1937-1967) *Trustee Emeritus (1967-1968) *regional director (1936-1938) *director-at-large (1940-1943)

References

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