Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund
Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund (born December 15, 1884 in Berlin , † February 8, 1965 in Kiel ) was a German chemist.
Rosenmund studied chemistry and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1906 . His doctoral supervisor was Otto Diels . Rosenmund taught and researched at the University of Kiel . He discovered the Rosenmund reduction, named after him, of carboxylic acid chlorides to aldehydes and the Rosenmund-von Braun reaction for the production of aryl nitriles from aryl bromides .
His Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry , which he had written together with Hans Vogt, was one of the most important textbooks in pharmaceutical chemistry after the Second World War.
Works
- Auxiliary book for performing qualitative analysis , 1926
- Brief introduction to pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry , 1947 (with Hans Vogt)
- Basics of pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry , 1953 (with Hans Vogt)
Individual evidence
- ^ Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organische Chemie , Verlag Chemie Weinheim, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 474, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 .
- ^ Textbooks in pharmaceutical chemistry since 1880 , from: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung of February 21, 2008.
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SURNAME | Rosenmund, Karl Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1884 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1965 |
Place of death | Kiel |