Stanislaus von Kostanecki

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Stanislaus von Kostanecki , also Stanislaw von Kostanecki , (born April 16, 1860 in Myszaków , † November 15, 1910 in Würzburg ) was a Polish chemist .

Kostanecki was the son of a landowner and studied chemistry at the University of Berlin from 1881 , where he was also in Carl Liebermann's laboratory at the trade academy and became his assistant in 1884. From 1886 he was head of the organic chemistry department at the Chemistry School in Mulhouse . In 1890 he received his doctorate as an external student at the University of Basel and was then professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bern , at times (1896/97) also for inorganic chemistry .

He dealt with the structure elucidation and synthesis of plant dyes , especially yellow plant dyes ( Morin , Quercetin , Fisin , Chrysin , Gentin ) belonging to the group of flavones . The Chromonsynthese after Kostanecki is named (1901) after him.

literature

  • Stanislaus von Kostanecki . In: Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch, 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Stanisław Kostanecki at academictree.org, accessed on February 24 2018th