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
Fields	Mineralogy Chemistry
Institutions	Sorbonne
Alma mater	University of Strasbourg Sorbonne
Notable students	André-Louis Debierne[1]
Known for	Friedel-Crafts reaction
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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 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-), 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. 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 (The Society) 77: 993–1019. http://books.google.com/?id=W_M4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA993&dq=Charles+Friedel+crafts. 

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

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Name	Friedel, Charles
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Date of birth	12 March 1832
Place of birth	Strasbourg, France
Date of death	20 April 1899
Place of death	Montauban, France