Charles Friedel

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Charles Friedel

Charles Friedel
Born 12 March 1832
Strasbourg, France
Died 20 April 1899(1899-04-20) (aged 67)
Montauban, France
Residence France
Nationality French
Fields Mineralogy
Chemistry
Institutions Sorbonne
Alma mater University of Strasbourg
Sorbonne
Notable students André-Louis Debierne[1]
Known for Friedel–Crafts reaction
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Charles Friedel (12 March 1832 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. 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.

Lineage

  • Friedel's wife's father was the engineer, Charles Combes.[4] The Friedel family, is a rich lineage of French scientists:
    • Georges Friedel (1865–1933), French crystallographer and mineralogist; son of Charles
    • Edmond Friedel (1895–1972), French Polytechnician and mining engineer, founder of BRGM, the French geological survey; son of Georges
    • Jacques Friedel (1921-), French physicist; son of Edmond (fr)

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: 13921395. 
  3. Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877). "Sur une nouvelle méthode générale de synthèse d'hydrocarbures, d'acétones, etc.". Compt. Rend. 84: 14501454. 
  4. Charles Combes, quercy.net, accessed April 2010

Further reading

  • Bataille, Xavier; Braum, Georges (1998). "La découverte de la réaction de Friedel et Crafts". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIC - Chemistry 1 (4): 293–296. doi:10.1016/S1387-1609(98)80048-0. 
  • Willemart, Antoine (1949). "Charles Friedel (1832-1899)". Journal of Chemical Education 26: 39. doi:10.1021/ed026p3. 

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