Charles Friedel (French: [fʁidɛl]; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist.
Charles Friedel | |
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Born | 12 March 1832 Strasbourg, France |
Died | 20 April 1899 Montauban, France | (aged 67)
Alma mater | University of Strasbourg Sorbonne |
Known for | Friedel–Crafts reaction Ketonic decarboxylation Organosilicon compound |
Awards | Davy Medal (1880) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mineralogy Chemistry |
Institutions | Sorbonne |
Thesis | Recherches sur les acétones et sur les aldéhydes. Suivi de Sur la pyro-électricité dans les cristaux bons conducteurs de l'électricité |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Adolphe Wurtz |
Doctoral students | Henri Becquerel Georges Urbain André-Louis Debierne[1] |
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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.
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
References
Further reading
- Bataille, Xavier; Braum, Georges (1998). "La découverte de la réaction de Friedel et Crafts". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série IIC. 1 (4): 293–296. doi:10.1016/S1387-1609(98)80048-0.
- Crafts, J. M. (1900). "Friedel Memorial Lecture". Journal of the Chemical Society. 77. The Society: 993–1019. doi:10.1039/ct9007700993.
- Willemart, Antoine (1949). "Charles Friedel (1832–1899)". Journal of Chemical Education. 26 (1): 3–9. Bibcode:1949JChEd..26....3W. doi:10.1021/ed026p3.
External links
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- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 215.
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