Amé Pictet
Amé Jules Pictet (born July 12, 1857 in Geneva ; † March 11, 1937 there ) was a Swiss chemist .
Pictet received his doctorate in 1879 under August von Kekulé . From 1894 to 1932 he was a professor at the University of Geneva . In 1889 he synthesized phenanthridine from benzalaniline by pyrolysis in a glow tube . In 1903 he synthesized nicotine for the first time . In the field of carbohydrate chemistry, he succeeded for the first time in 1928 in the synthesis of sucrose based on its building blocks glucose and fructose . In 1922 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
The Pictet-Spengler reaction and the Pictet-Gams synthesis for the preparation of isoquinolines are named after him.
Works
- The chemical constitution of vegetable alkaloids (1891)
- The sugar anhydrides and their use for the synthesis of disaccharides (with Vogel, 1929)
Web links
- Literature by and about Amé Pictet in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans-Jürgen Hansen: Pictet, Amé Jules. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Pictet Family Archives (in French)
- Note on sucrose synthesis in Science
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter P. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 3, 2020 (French).
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SURNAME | Pictet, Amé |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pictet, Amé Jules (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1857 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1937 |
Place of death | Geneva |