Leonhard Limpach
Leonhard Limpach (born January 25, 1852 in Schweinfurt , † January 2, 1933 in Erlangen ) was a German chemist.
Limpach was the son of a merchant and after completing his apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Würzburg, he studied with Johannes Wislicenus , whose assistant he became and with whom he received his doctorate in 1876. From 1878 he was works manager at Farbwerke Hoechst and from 1887 director of Ivan Levinstein's dye company in Manchester. In 1893 he went from there to Erlangen and took over a pharmacy, which he ran until 1919.
According to him, and Max Conrad , a synthesis of is quinoline (1887) from the condensation of aniline with - keto - esters named. He also examined general substitutions in aromatic amines such as aniline.
literature
- Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989
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| SURNAME | Limpach, Leonhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and pharmacist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schweinfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1933 |
| Place of death | gain |