Louis Bouveault
Louis Bouveault (born February 11, 1864 in Nevers , † September 5, 1909 in Paris ) was a French chemist and medic. The Bouveault-Blanc reaction (1903), the Bouveault-aldehyde synthesis (1904) and some other name reactions in organic chemistry , which he discovered together with Gustave Blanc , bear his name .
Bouveault was the son of an architect, studied from 1882 at the École Polytechnique in Paris and then at the Sorbonne , where he received his doctorate in natural sciences in 1890 and in medicine in 1892. He moved to the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon and then to the University of Lyon, where he became a lecturer in general chemistry in 1894. In 1898 he became a lecturer in Lille, in 1899 associate professor of organic chemistry in Nancy and in 1901 lecturer and later associate professor at the Sorbonne in Paris.
In his dissertation he dealt with β-ketonitriles and in Lyon with essential oils ( terpenes and their derivatives, some in use in the perfume industry) and camphor . His research area was organic synthesis. His medical dissertation was on the chemical investigation of avian tuberculosis.
In Lyon, he worked with Philippe Barbier and one of his students was Victor Grignard , whom he got enthusiastic about chemistry.
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 60
- Nye, MJ: Science in the Provinces. P. 166f. Berkeley (USA): University of California Press 1986
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pötsch u. a., Lexicon of important chemists, mentions in addition to these two also Bouveault carbonamide saponification (1893), 1-oximinoester cleavage according to Bouveault and Loquin (1901)
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| SURNAME | Bouveault, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist and medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nevers |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1909 |
| Place of death | Paris |