Charles Friedel
Friedel in 1890s
Born12 March 1832
Strasbourg, France
Died20 April 1899(1899-04-20) (aged 67)
Montauban, France
Alma materUniversity of Strasbourg
Sorbonne
Known forFriedel–Crafts reaction
Ketonic decarboxylation
Organosilicon compound
AwardsDavy Medal (1880)
Scientific career
FieldsMineralogy
Chemistry
InstitutionsSorbonne
ThesisRecherches sur les acétones et sur les aldéhydes. Suivi de Sur la pyro-électricité dans les cristaux bons conducteurs de l'électricité
Doctoral advisorCharles Adolphe Wurtz
Doctoral studentsHenri Becquerel
Georges Urbain
André-Louis Debierne[1]
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Charles Friedel (French: [fʁidɛl]; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist.

Life

A native of Strasbourg, France, he was a student of Louis Pasteur at the Sorbonne. In 1876, he became a professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the Sorbonne.

Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877,[2][3] and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.

His son Georges Friedel (1865–1933) also became a renowned mineralogist.

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References

  1. ^ Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 2nd Revised edition
  2. ^ Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877). "Sur une nouvelle méthode générale de synthèse d'hydrocarbures, d'acétones, etc". Compt. Rend. 84: 1392–1395.
  3. ^ Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877). "Sur une nouvelle méthode générale de synthèse d'hydrocarbures, d'acétones, etc". Compt. Rend. 84: 1450–1454.
  4. ^ Charles Combes Archived May 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, quercy.net, accessed April 2010

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