Charles Friedel (French: [ʃaʁl fʁidɛl]; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist.

Life

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.

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 (1921–2014), French physicist; son of Edmond

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.
  3. ^ Friedel, C.; Crafts, J.-M. (1877). "Sur une nouvelle méthode générale de synthèse d'hydrocarbures, d'acétones, etc". Compt. Rend. 84: 1450–1454.
  4. ^ Charles Combes Archived May 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, quercy.net, accessed April 2010

Further reading

Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Friedel
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