Charles Friedel (French: [fʁidɛl]; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist.
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Born | 12 March 1832 Strasbourg, France |
Died | 20 April 1899 Montauban, France | (aged 67)
Alma mater | University of Strasbourg Sorbonne |
Known for | Friedel–Crafts reaction Ketonic decarboxylation Organosilicon compound |
Awards | Davy Medal (1880) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mineralogy Chemistry |
Institutions | Sorbonne |
Thesis | Recherches sur les acétones et sur les aldéhydes. Suivi de Sur la pyro-électricité dans les cristaux bons conducteurs de l'électricité |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Adolphe Wurtz |
Doctoral students | Henri Becquerel Georges Urbain André-Louis Debierne[1] |
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A native of Strasbourg, France, he was a student of Louis Pasteur at the Sorbonne. In 1876, he became a professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the Sorbonne.
Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877,[2][3] and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.
His son Georges Friedel (1865–1933) also became a renowned mineralogist.