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Article: Named reactions -- forgotten chemists.
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- Chemistry and Industry
- Article date:
- December 20, 1999
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Chemists today may recognise names such as Claisen, Curtius and Fischer, but how many know about the people behind the reactions?
What is a 'forgotten' chemist? Several chemists who were obscure or disregarded in their own time are now well known, generally because they are hailed as forerunners of major developments. These include, for instance, Couper, for his work on structural formulae, Loschmidt, who proposed the benzene ring structure, and Newlands, for his periodic law of the elements. Obscure as they may have been, historians of chemistry and even some chemists have clearly not forgotten them.
But, ironically, chemists who were important in their ...
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