Kennedy Joseph Previté Orton

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Kennedy Joseph Previté Orton , mostly quoted by KJP Orton, (born January 21, 1872 in St Leonards-on-sea, † 1930 ) was a British chemist ( organic chemistry ). The Orton rearrangement is named after him.

Life

Orton studied in Cambridge and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1897 under Karl Friedrich von Auwers (cryoscopic examinations). He was then a few years assistant to FD Chattaway (1860-1944) at St. Bartholomew Hospital Medical School in London and in 1903 professor at the University College of North Wales in Bangor .

He studied halogenated aromatic amines and their conversion. He judged these to be intermolecular and not intramolecular, which got him into an argument with Chattaway. Under his leadership, University College in Bangor was for a while one of the centers of physical organic chemistry in Great Britain. His group included Herbert B. Watson (1894-1975), AE Bradfield (1897-1953) and FG Soper (18981-1982), and the students included Brynmor Jones (1903-1989), Gwyn Williams (1904-1955) and Edward David Hughes (1906-1963).

He published together with Chattaway for the first time in 1899 about the rearrangement named after him.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society .

literature

  • Allan Ferguson, Obituary in Nature, Vol. 125, 1930, 898-899
  • HK, Obituary in Journal of the Chemical Society, 1931, pp. 1042-1048
  • FDC, obituary in Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 129, 1930, XI-XIV

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chemistry Tree .
  2. ↑ Biography after John Shorter Physical Organic Chemistry , in: Colin A. Russell, Gerrylynn K. Roberts (Eds.) Chemical History- reviews of the recent literature, RSC Publishing 2005, p. 94.
  3. ↑ Chattaway, Orton, J. Chem. Soc., 75, 1899, 1046
  4. ↑ Orton, WJ Jones, J. Chem. Soc., 95, 1909, 1456
  5. ↑ Orton, H. King, J. Chem. Soc., 99, 1911, 1185
  6. ↑ Orton, A. Bradfield, J. Chem. Soc. 1927, 986.
personal data
SURNAME Orton, Kennedy Joseph Previté
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH St Leonards-on-sea
DATE OF DEATH 1930