Georges Simon Serullas
Georges Simon Serullas (born November 2, 1774 in Poncin , † May 25, 1832 in Paris ) was a French chemist and pharmacist.
Serullas completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and studied pharmacy with Antoine Parmentier and Pierre Bayen . In 1793 he became a pharmacist in the French army and came to Russia with the Grand Army of Napoleon (in which he was major). In 1814 he became director of pharmacy at the military hospital in Metz and in 1825 head pharmacist and professor at the military hospital Val-de-Grâce . Soon afterwards he became a chemistry professor at the Jardin des plantes .
In 1822 he made iodoform in the first example of a haloform reaction (used as an antiseptic). In 1828 he produced cyanuric acid and in 1827 cyanamide (in total synthesis), cyanuric chloride and ethyl bromide, and in 1830 he was the first to produce iodic acid , which he used for the analytical separation of sodium and potassium. Serullas developed a technical process for the production of potassium chlorate . He was one of the first to produce synthetic alcohol .
In 1829 he became president of the Société de Pharmacie de Paris and in the same year he was admitted to the Academie des Sciences .
literature
- Wolfgang Müller: Georges Simon Sérullas, in: Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 395
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| SURNAME | Serullas, Georges Simon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist and pharmacist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poncin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1832 |
| Place of death | Paris |