Philippe Barbier
François Antoine Philippe Barbier (born March 2, 1848 in Luzy (Nièvre), † September 18, 1922 in Bandol -sur-Mer) was a French organic chemist . He is considered the father of organometallic chemistry and synthesized the first organomagnesium compound in 1899 . But his name is best known for the barber reaction named after him . Barbier was PhD supervisor of Victor Grignard .
From 1869 Barbier was Pierre Berthelot's assistant at the Collège de France , headed the chemistry department there from 1874 and received his doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1876 . In 1877 he became a preparator of mineralogy at the École Supérieure de Pharmacie in Paris and in 1878 associate professor at the University of Lyon and in 1879 lecturer and 1880 professor at the University of Besançon. From 1884 to 1919 he was professor of chemistry at the University of Lyon. In 1913 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences .
Another reaction is named after him (and Heinrich Wieland ), the Barbier-Wieland degradation or Barbier-Wieland reaction or Wieland-Barbier side chain degradation (multi-stage degradation of carboxylic acids to the next lower homologue). In 1872 he examined terpenes and their interconversion and in 1874 isomers of anthracene .
Works
- Etude sur la coumarine . Parent, Paris 1879 (Paris, Univ., Diss., 1879)
literature
- Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 1848 Philippe A. Barbier ( Memento of May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Platinum Metals Rev. (1984) 28 , 76-83 (PDF; 660 kB)
- ↑ Organometallic Compounds
- ^ Directory of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 7, 2020 (French).
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| SURNAME | Barber, Philippe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barbier, Philippe A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luzy |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1922 |
| Place of death | Bandol- sur-mer |