Heinrich Rheinboldt

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Heinrich Rheinboldt (born August 11, 1891 in Karlsruhe , † December 5, 1955 in São Paulo ) was a German-Brazilian chemist.

Life

He was the son of the Baden Finance Minister Josef Nikolaus Rheinboldt , grandson of Heinrich Caro and studied geology and chemistry at the TH Karlsruhe from 1910 and from 1911 at the University of Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate in 1918 . When the latter became French, he went back to the TH Karlsruhe and from 1922 to the University of Bonn (following Paul Pfeiffer , whose assistant he was), where he completed his habilitation in 1924, became an associate professor in 1928 and a full professor for analytical and inorganic chemistry in 1930 . After the rise of the National Socialists he left Germany and in 1934 became professor of chemistry at the University of São Paulo , where he set up the chemical institute.

He dealt with the Grignard reaction , organic sulfur, selenium and tellurium compounds, thionitriles, cholic acid and bile acids.

Fonts

  • Chemical teaching experiments. 1934.

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