Rudolf Leuckart (chemist)

Carl Louis Rudolf Alexander Leuckart (born June 23, 1854 in Gießen , † July 24, 1889 in Leipzig ) was a German chemist .

Life

Rudolf Leuckart was born in Gießen in 1854 as the son of the respected zoologist Rudolf Leuckart . He first attended the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Giessen and from 1869 to 1873 the Thomas School in Leipzig . He then did his military service in the Royal Saxon 8th Infantry Regiment "Prince Johann Georg" No. 107. As a reserve officer , he achieved the rank of prime lieutenant .

He then studied chemistry , physics and mineralogy at Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff in Heidelberg and Hermann Kolbe in Leipzig , where he in 1879 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. After further studies from 1880 with Adolf von Baeyer in Munich , he completed his habilitation in 1883 at the University of Göttingen , where he worked as an assistant and private lecturer with Hans Hübner and Victor Meyer . He later became an associate professor .

After an accident he died in Leipzig in 1889.

science

The Leuckart-Wallach reaction goes back to him (1885) and the subsequent Nobel Prize winner Otto Wallach (1892). It describes the reductive amination of ketones and aldehydes with methanoic acid . In addition, he researched other compounds such as the isomeric monobromocinnamic acids and the (an-) symmetrical dimethylsuccinic acid.

Fonts (selection)

• About ethyl urea and some of its derivatives. In: Journal für Praktische Chemie 21 (1880), 1-38. doi : 10.1002 / prac.18800210101
• On the behavior of the two isomeric monobromo-cinnamic acids towards concentrated sulfuric acid. In: Reports of the German Chemical Society 15 (1882), 16–21. doi : 10.1002 / cber.18820150106
• About a New Formation of Tribenzylamine. In: Reports of the German Chemical Society 18 (1885) 2, 2341-2344. doi : 10.1002 / cber.188501802113

literature

• Rudolf Leuckart. In: Chemical Reports 22 (1889) 3, 855 ff.