Arnold Reissert

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Arnold Reissert (born October 25, 1860 in Powayen , East Prussia , † November 21, 1945 in Marburg ) was a German chemist .

life and work

Reissert studied chemistry and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1884 under Ferdinand Tiemann with a thesis on the action of phenylhydrazine on the cyanohydrins of benzaldehyde, acetaldehyde and acetone . From 1888 he worked as a private lecturer in Berlin.

In 1902 Reissert became a professor at the University of Marburg and developed the indole synthesis named after him from nitrotoluene and diethyl oxalates. The Reissert reaction is also named after him. Reissert was a member of the German Chemical Society and editor of the annual reports of the German Chemical Society in Berlin .

Arnold Reissert was married to Julie Levy, who came from an assimilated Jewish family from Berlin. Her brother Hermann Levy was a professor of economics in Heidelberg and Berlin.

Honors

In 1913 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Publications

  • Polynuclear benzene derivatives . In: Victor Meyer and Paul Heinrich Jacobson (editors): Textbook of organic chemistry , Vol. 2: Cyclic compounds. - natural substances; Part 2. Veit, Leipzig 1903.
  • History and systematics of the indigo syntheses. With special consideration of the relevant patent literature . Friedländer, Berlin 1898.
  • The quinoline and its derivatives . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1889.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5770, p. 361 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Inaugural dissertation "On the action of phenylhydrazine on the cyanohydrins of benzaldehyde, acetaldehyde and acetone" results published in Ber. dt. Chem. Ges. 17 , 1451 (1884)
  3. ^ Reissert - overview of publications 1878-1887 Reissert - overview of publications 1888-1896
  4. ^ In: Reports of the German Chemical Society 1897, Vol. 30 , p. 1030. ISSN  0365-9631
  5. ↑ Entries on Reissert Compound and Reissert indole synthesis . In: Alexander Senning: Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology . Elsevier, 2007, p. 337. ISBN 0444522395 .
  6. ↑ F. v. Dechend and Arnold Reissert: General register for the years 21-29 (1888-1896) of the reports of the German Chemical Society . R. Friedländer, Berlin 1898.
  7. ^ Member entry of Karl Arnold Reissert at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 24, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Reissert, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reissert, Karl Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Powayen
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1945
Place of death Marburg