Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt

Infobox_Scientist
name = Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt


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caption = Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt
birth_date = birth date|1731|7|24|df=y
birth_place = Paris, France
death_date = death date and age|1799|10|17|1731|7|24
death_place = Paris, France
residence = France
nationality = French
field = Chemist
work_institutions = Hotel Royal des Invalides in Paris
alma_mater = Collège des Quatre-Nations
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known_for = Synthesis of the first organometallic compound
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Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (July 24, 1731 – October 17, 1799) was a French chemist who synthesised the first organometalic compound.

He obtained a red liquid by the reaction of potassium acetate with arsenic trioxide. This liquid is known as Cadet's fuming liquid and contains the two compounds cacodyl and cacodyl oxide.

Cadet studied at the Collège des Quatre-Nations and became a phamacist at the Hotel Royal des Invalides in Paris.

Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet became his wife in 1771, at that time her son, fathered by Louis XV, was two years old. The boy was adopted by Cadet as Charles-Louis Cadet.

References

*cite journal
title = Cadet's Fuming Arsenical Liquid and the Cacodyl Compounds of Bunsen
first = Dietmar
last = Seyferth
journal = Organometallics
year = 2001
volume = 20
issue =8
pages = 1488–1498
doi = 10.1021/om0101947
url = http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/orgnd7/2001/20/i08/abs/om0101947.html

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NAME= Cadet de Gassicourt, Louis Claude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Cadet, Louis Claude
SHORT DESCRIPTION= chemist.
DATE OF BIRTH= birth date|1731|7|24
PLACE OF BIRTH= Paris, France
DATE OF DEATH= death date|1799|10|17
PLACE OF DEATH= Paris, France