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    Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (27 September 1818 – 25 November 1884) was a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor...
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  • The Kolbe–Schmitt reaction or Kolbe process (named after Hermann Kolbe and Rudolf Schmitt) is a carboxylation chemical reaction that proceeds by treating...
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  • The Kolbe electrolysis or Kolbe reaction is an organic reaction named after Hermann Kolbe. The Kolbe reaction is formally a decarboxylative dimerisation...
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  • word synthesis was used first in a chemical context by the chemist Hermann Kolbe. Many strategies exist in chemical synthesis that are more complicated...
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  • cyanide ion is an ambident nucleophile. The reaction is named after Hermann Kolbe. R − X alkyl   halide + CN ⊖ cyanide   ion ⟶ R − C ≡ N alkyl   nitrile...
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  • Kolbe is a surname. Those bearing it include: Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist Andreas Kolbe (fl. 1557), German printer, prominent...
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  • salicylic acid, both in vivo and through chemical methods. In 1869, Hermann Kolbe synthesised salicylic acid, although it was too acidic for the gastric...
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    Georg Ludwig Carius, Heinrich Limpricht, Rudolph Fittig, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, Albert Niemann, Vojtěch Šafařík, Wilhelm Kühne, and Augustus Voelcker...
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    radical of the acetic acid. The modern term was coined by German chemist Hermann Kolbe in 1851, who rebutted Liebig's hypothesis. However even in 1860 Marcellin...
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    American inventor, gunsmith (d. 1903) September 27 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884) October 8 – John Henninger Reagan, American...
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    Jacob Volhard first synthesized it in 1862 while working in the lab of Hermann Kolbe. Prior to the synthesis of sarcosine, it had long been known to be a...
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    French chemist Pierre Adet proved them identical. In 1845 German chemist Hermann Kolbe synthesised acetic acid from inorganic compounds for the first time...
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    home town, he studied chemistry at the University of Marburg under Hermann Kolbe and at the University of Heidelberg under Robert Bunsen but he never...
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    Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835) November 25 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818) December 1 – William Swainson, second, and...
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    Johannes Hartmann Thomas Archer Hirst Erich Hückel Kathrin Jansen Hermann Knoblauch Hermann Kolbe Albrecht Kossel Ulrich Lemmer Otto Loewi Carl Ludwig Hans Meerwein...
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    went to western Europe to further his chemical studies, studying with Hermann Kolbe in Marburg, and with Charles Adolphe Wurtz in Paris. This went directly...
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    from Tetrachloroethylene and nitrogen tetroxide was first described by Hermann Kolbe in 1869. Tetrachloroethylene begins to thermally decompose at 400 °C...
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    am Main in 1856. This was only possible after the recommendation of Hermann Kolbe, who was head of the chemistry department in Marburg. The devastating...
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    Edward Frankland, F.A. Kekulé, A.S. Couper, Alexander Butlerov, and Hermann Kolbe, building on the theory of radicals, developed the theory of valency...
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    in an effort to vindicate the radical theory of organic chemistry, Hermann Kolbe and Edward Frankland produced ethane by the reductions of propionitrile...
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  • Knop Ludwig Knorr Julius Arnold Koch Christoph Kohl Hermann Kolbe Anton Köllisch Joseph König Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Wilhelm Körner Oskar Korschelt Friedrich...
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    acid; however, in 1862 the German chemist Hermann Kolbe showed that this surmise was wrong; instead, Kolbe concluded that asparagine was an amide of an...
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    1855 obtained a PhD at the University of Marburg under Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe. In 1856 he joined Edward Frankland, professor of chemistry at Owens...
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    Hermann Julius Kolbe (2 June 1855, Halle, Province of Westphalia – 26 November 1939) was a German entomologist from Halle, Westphalia. He was curator at...
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  • 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist known for Kolbe nitrile synthesis Izaak Kolthoff (1894–1993),...
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  • November 11 – Alfred Brehm (born 1829), German zoologist. November 25 – Hermann Kolbe (born 1818), German chemist. Arrhenius equation – IUPAC Goldbook definition...
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  • at first called pyroglycerine, first synthesized by Ascanio Sobrero. Hermann Kolbe obtains acetic acid from completely inorganic sources, further disproving...
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    almost entirely on so-called "wet" chemistry. Some chemists, notably Hermann Kolbe, heavily criticized the use of structural formulas that were offered...
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  • Institute Leeds, Georg-Kolbe-Museum Berlin, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus Bremen, Leeds 2001 Josephine Gabler (Hg.): Sterngucker. Hermann Blumenthal und seine Zeit...
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  • 1884 Hermann Kolbe was the editor-in-chief. From 1879 to 1884 Ernst von Meyer worked as co-editor under Kolbe and became editor-in-chief upon Kolbe's death...
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