Charles Friedel

See also: Friedel

Charles Friedel , born with Strasbourg the March 12th 1832 and died in Montauban the April 20th 1899, is a French mineralogist and chemist.

Chemistry teacher with the Sorbonne, it is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1878.

Friedel discovered the Réaction of Friedel-Crafts (alkylation and acylation) with James Crafts in 1877, and tried to produce synthetic Diamant S.

Successor of Gabriel Delafosse with the pulpit of mineralogy of the Faculty of Science of Paris in 1876, it leaves this station in 1885 and it is replaced by Paul Hautefeuille, to succeed Charles-Adolphe Wurtz with the pulpit of organic chemistry. With its death, it is replaced by Albin Haller.

Charles Friedel is the father of Georges Friedel.

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