Carl Magnus von Hell

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name = Carl Magnus von Hell


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birth_date = birth date|1849|9|8
birth_place = Stuttgart, Germany
residence = Germany
nationality = German
death_date = death date and age|1926|12|11|1849|9|8
death_place = Stuttgart, Germany
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work_institution = Technical University of Stuttgart
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known_for = Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation.
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Carl Magnus von Hell (8 September 1849 – 11 December 1926) was the German chemist who discovered, together with Jacob Volhard and the Russian chemist Nikolay Zelinsky, the Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation reaction.

Life

He studied chemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart with
Hermann von Fehling and at the University of Munich with Emil Erlenmeyer. After serving in the Franco German war in 1870 he became assistant, and after of Fehling in 1883, professor for chemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart. He supervised the building of the new laboratory which was finished in 1895/96. His research interests have been dicarboxylic acids aliphatic hydrocarbons and their synthesis. He synthesized the C₆₀H₁₂₂ showing that carbon chains of up to 60 atoms are possible. Due to an eye illness he asked for retirement in 1914.

References

*cite journal
title = Carl Magnus von Hell
pages = 54–59
author = H. Kauffmann
doi = 10.1002/cber.19120450261
journal = Berichte der Dtsch. Chem. Ges.
volume = 60
issue = 3
year = 1926
doi = 10.1002/cber.19270600343