Charles Friedel

Charles Friedel
Friedel in 1890s
Born	12 March 1832 Strasbourg, France
Died	20 April 1899(1899-04-20) (aged 67) Montauban, France
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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Charles Friedel (French: [ʃaʁl 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

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. 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

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Friedel, Charles" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 215.
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