Charles Friedel

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/minerology 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

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

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. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30410/f1386.table.
3. ^ Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877). "Sur une nouvelle méthode générale de synthèse d'hydrocarbures, d'acétones, etc.". Compt. Rend. 84: 1450 – 1454. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30410/f1444.table.
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.

* Crafts, J. M. (1900). "Friedel Memorial Lecture". Journal of the Chemical Society 77: 993 – 1019. http://books.google.com/books?id=W_M4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA993&dq=Charles+Friedel+crafts&lr=&as_brr=1#PPA992-IA2,M2.

* Willemart, Antoine (1949). "Charles Friedel (1832-1899)". Journal of Chemical Education 26: 3 – 9. doi:10.1021/ed026p3.

External links

* Charles Friedel

List of chemists

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