Arnold Reissert
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
- Literature by and about Arnold Reissert in the catalogs of the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (no entries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5770, p. 361 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Reissert - overview of publications 1878-1887 Reissert - overview of publications 1888-1896
- ^ In: Reports of the German Chemical Society 1897, Vol. 30 , p. 1030. ISSN 0365-9631
- ↑ Entries on Reissert Compound and Reissert indole synthesis . In: Alexander Senning: Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology . Elsevier, 2007, p. 337. ISBN 0444522395 .
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Member entry of Karl Arnold Reissert at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 24, 2015.
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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 |