Charles Friedel
| Charles Friedel | |
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 Charles Friedel | |
| Born |
12 March 1832 Strasbourg, France |
| Died |
20 April 1899 (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 |
| Notable awards | Davy Medal (1880) |
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Charles Friedel (French: [fʁidɛl]; 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 (1921-2014), French physicist; son of Edmond (fr)
References
- ↑ Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 2nd Revised edition
- ↑ Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877). "Sur une nouvelle méthode générale de synthèse d'hydrocarbures, d'acétones, etc.". Compt. Rend. 84: 1392–1395.
- ↑ Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877). "Sur une nouvelle méthode générale de synthèse d'hydrocarbures, d'acétones, etc.". Compt. Rend. 84: 1450–1454.
- ↑ 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.
- Crafts, J. M. (1900). "Friedel Memorial Lecture". Journal of the Chemical Society (The Society) 77: 993–1019. doi:10.1039/ct9007700993.
- Willemart, Antoine (1949). "Charles Friedel (1832-1899)". Journal of Chemical Education 26: 3–9. doi:10.1021/ed026p3.
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