Huang Minlon

Huang Minlon (Traditional Chinese: 黃鳴龍; Simplified Chinese: 黄鸣龙; aka Huang Minglong, Huang Ming Long, Huang Min-lon) (03 July 1898 - 01 July 1979), was a renowned Chinese organic chemist and pharmaceutical scientist. Huang is considered as a pioneer and founder of morden pharmaceutical industries in China. [ [http://baike.baidu.com/view/187807.htm 百度百科 黄鸣龙 简介] ]

Life

[ [http://www.sioc.ac.cn/yszc/wangml.htm Huang Minlon's CV] ] Huang was born in late Qing Dynasty in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province on 3 July 1898. In 1917, Huang graduated from Yangzhou Middle School. In 1918, Huang graduated from the Zhejiang Provincial College of Medicine (current Zhejiang University School of Medicine).

In 1924, Huang obtained PhD from the University of Berlin, Germany.

In 1925, Huang went back to China and became a professor and later a head of department at Zhejiang Provincial College of Medicine.

During 1934-1940, Huang did research works in Germany and UK.

Huang came back to China in 1940 and became a senior reseacher at Academia Sinica. Huang was also a professor at the National Southwestern Associated University (current Tsinghua University, Peking University and Nankai University).

During 1945-1952, Huang was a visiting professor in USA (at Harvard University). Huang also visited the Merck & Co..

In 1952, Huang came back to China. Huang served as the Head of Department of Chemistry, Academy of Military Medical Sciences of PLA. Huang was also a senior researcher at the (Shanghai) Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (SIOC, the most prestigious institute for organic chemistry research in China).

Huang is regarded as one of pioneers and founders of morden pharmaceutical industries in China. Huang was a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1955 election). Huang was the Vice-president and later the Honorary-president of the Chinese Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (aka Chinese Pharmaceutical Association).

Huang published more than 100 papers, in both English and Chinese.

Huang-Minlon modification

The Huang Modification or Huang-Minlon Modification [Huang-Minlon "J. Am. Chem. Soc." 1946, "68", 2487.] [Huang-Minlon "J. Am. Chem. Soc." 1949, "71", 3301.] is named after Huang Minlon. It was the first time that a Chinese name appeared in an organic chemical reaction.

It's a short-cut for the Wolff-Kishner reduction and involves heating the carbonyl compound, potassium hydroxide, and hydrazine hydrate together in ethylene glycol in a one-pot reaction [Organic Syntheses, Coll. Vol. 4, p.510 (1963); Vol. 38, p.34 (1958)] . Huang did this development in 1945 when he was in USA.

"Please also see , the shemetic indication of Huang Modification"

In many sources, it's also mentioned such method as "Wolff-Kishner-Huang Reduction" (or "Wolff-Kishner-Huang Minlon" method/reaction/reduction), or in German "Wolff-Kishner/Huang-Minlon Reduktion" (or "Wolff-Kishner-Huang-Minlon-Reduktion").

"Please also check the German source: Variante nach Huang-Minlon"

In some sources, people think "Huang" and "Minlon" are two different persons. It's in fact a mistake, "Huang" is his family name and "Minlon" is his first name. "Huang Minlon" is the Wade-Giles spelling, and "Huang Minglong" is its Pinyin romanization of the Chinese characters in his name.

References

ee also

* Zhejiang Provincial College of Medicine
* Zhejiang Medical University
* Zhejiang University
* Wolff-Kishner reduction

Extra links

* [http://www.sioc.ac.cn/yszc/wangml.htm Huang Lonmin's CV, including his photo and publications]
* [http://www.lifeall.cn/mem/4172/main.ahtml Memorial website for Huang Minlon]
* [http://baike.baidu.com/view/187807.htm Huang Minlon's short biography at Baidu.com]
* [http://www.experiencefestival.com/wolff-kishner_reduction_-_huang-minlon_modification Wolff-Kishner reduction - Huang-Minlon modification]
* [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/104541925/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 The Huang - Minlon Modification of Wolff - Kishner Reduction in Rapid and Simple Way Using Microwave Technology]

* [http://www.bmi.ac.cn/ 中国人民解放军军事医学科学院 (Academy of Military Medical Sciences of PLA)]
* [http://www.cmm.zju.edu.cn/ 浙江大学医学院 (Zhejiang University School of Medicine)]
* [http://www.sioc.ac.cn/ 中国科学院上海有机化学所 (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)]
* [http://www.cpa.org.cn/ 中国药学会 (Chinese Pharmaceutical Association)]