Charles Friedel

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
Alma mater University of Strasbourg
Sorbonne
Known for Friedel–Crafts reaction
Awards Davy Medal (1880)
Scientific career
Fields Mineralogy
Chemistry
Institutions Sorbonne
Notable students 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.

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

  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

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. The Society. 77: 993–1019. doi:10.1039/ct9007700993.
  • Willemart, Antoine (1949). "Charles Friedel (1832–1899)". Journal of Chemical Education. 26: 3–9. Bibcode:1949JChEd..26....3W. doi:10.1021/ed026p3.
  • Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Friedel, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 215.
  • Charles Friedel
  • Biographie par Georges Lemoine
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