Julius Bredt

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name = Julius Bredt


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caption = Julius Bredt
birth_date = birth date|1855|3|29
birth_place = Berlin, Germany
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nationality = German
death_date = death date and age|1937|9|21|1855|3|29
death_place = Aachen, Germany
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work_institution = Aachen University of Technology
alma_mater = University of Straßburg
doctoral_advisor = Rudolph Fittig
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known_for = Bredt's rule
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Julius Bredt (March 29, 1855 – September 21, 1937) was a German organic chemist. He was the first to determine, in 1893, the correct structure of camphor. Bredt also discovered that a double bond cannot be placed at the bridgehead of a bridged ring system, a statement now known as Bredt's rule .

Further reading

*cite journal | title = Julius Bredt and the structure of camphor: on the threshold of modern stereochemistry | author = George B. Kauffman | journal = Journal of Chemical Education | volume = 60 | issue = 4 | pages = 341 – 342 | year = 1983