Angelo Angeli

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Angelo Angeli (born August 20, 1864 in Tarcento near Udine , † May 31, 1931 in Florence ) was an Italian chemist.

Angeli was the son of a businessman, studied in Padua and received her doctorate in chemistry in 1891 under Giacomo Luigi Ciamician in Bologna (Laurea). He was Giacomo Ciamician's assistant in Bologna . In 1893 he became a lecturer there and in 1895 a professor. In 1894 he was briefly with Adolf von Baeyer in Munich. In 1897 he moved to the University of Palermo as professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and in 1913 he became director of the Florence School of Pharmacy. In addition, since 1915 he was Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Florence (Istituto di Studi Superiori).

He dealt mainly with nitrogen compounds and studied the structure of hydrazoic acid, synthesized nitrohydroxylamine (1894) and discovered the radical nitroxyl . The Angeli-Rimini reaction for the detection of aldehydes is named after him (and Enrico Rimini ) (1896). She originally used nitrohydroxylamine. He confirmed the structure of camphor proposed by Julius Bredt in 1893 .

He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei , the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (since 1919) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 1928) as well as an honorary member of the Society of German Chemists.

literature

  • Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989

Individual evidence

  1. Life data, publications and academic family tree of Angelo Angeli at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
  2. Member entry of Angelo Angeli at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 17, 2016.

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