Edmond Frémy
Edmond Frémy (French: [fremi]; 28 February 1814 – 3 February 1894) was a French chemist. He is perhaps best known today for Frémy's salt, a strong oxidizing agent which he discovered in 1845. Fremy's salt is a long-lived free radical that finds use as a standard in electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Life
Frémy was born at
Work
Frémy's work included investigations of osmic acid, the ferrates,
Keenly alive to the importance of the technical applications of chemistry, Frémy devoted special attention as a teacher to the training of industrial chemists. In this field he contributed to our knowledge of the manufacture of iron and steel, sulfuric acid, glass, and paper, and in particular worked at the saponification of fats with sulfuric acid and the utilization of palmitic acid for candle-making. In the later years of his life he applied himself to the problem of obtaining alumina in the I crystalline form, and succeeded in making rubies identical with the natural gem not merely in chemical composition but also in physical properties.[1]
Publications
In addition to numerous treatises in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique, he published Traité de chimie générale (7 vols., 3rd ed. 1862-65). The Encyclopédie Chimique, a work in 10 volumes, upon which he was engaged for thirteen years, was prepared by him in collaboration with several other scientists, and was completed in 1894.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 98.
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Frémy, Edmond". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 98.
Further reading
- Morey, J. (1988). "Undergraduate Experiments with a Long-Lived Radical (Fremy's salt): Synthesis of 1,4-Benzoquinones by Degradative Oxidation of p-Hydroxybenzyl Alcohols". Journal of Chemical Education. 65 (7): 627–629. doi:10.1021/ed065p627. [dead link]
External links
Obituary in The New York Times, February 5, 1894.
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