Johannes Wislicenus

Johannes Wislicenus
Johannes Wislicenus
	University of Leipzig
Doctoral students	Carl Bosch; William Henry Perkin; Harold Carpenter

Johannes Wislicenus (German pronunciation: [joˈhanəs vɪsliˈt͜seːnʊs]; 24 June 1835 – 5 December 1902) was a German chemist, most famous for his work in early stereochemistry.

Biography

The son of the radical Protestant theologian

University of Leipzig, where he died on 6 December 1902.^[2]

Research

By the late 1860s,^[

J. H. van't Hoff's theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom, believing that it, together with the supposition that there are "specially directed forces, the affinity-energies",^[2] which determine the relative position of atoms in the molecule, afforded a method by which the spatial arrangement of atoms in particular cases may be ascertained by experiment. While at Würzburg, Wislicenus developed the use of ethyl aceto acetate in organic synthesis.^[2] However, he was also active in inorganic chemistry, finding a reaction for the production of sodium azide. He was the first to prepare cyclopentane in 1893^[4]

Awards

In 1898 Wislicenus was awarded the Davy Medal by the Royal Society of London.^[2]

Notes

^ The New International Encyclopedia. Vol. 23 (2nd ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1916. p. 731.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Chisholm 1911.

^ Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874–1914. Routledge. 2017.

^ J. Wislicenus and W. Hentschel (1893) "Der Pentamethenylalkohol und seine Derivate" (Cyclopentanol and its derivatives), Annalen der Chemie, 275 : 322-330; see especially pages 327-330. Wislicenus prepared cyclopentane from cyclopentanone ("Ketopentamethen"), which is prepared by heating calcium adipate.

References

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wislicenus, Johannes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Further reading

Beckmann, Ernst (1905). Johannes Wislicenus. Verlag Chemie. Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft, 1905, volume 37. pp. 4861–4946

Carpenter, K. J. (1997). "Protein cannot be the sole source of muscular energy (Fick, Wislicenus and Frankland, 1866)". J. Nutr. 127 (5 Supplement): 1020S–1021S.
PMID 9164290
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Royal Society (Great Britain) (1907). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Harrison and Son. - Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, 1907, volume 78, pages iii – xii

"Wislicenus, Johannes" . New International Encyclopedia
. 1905.

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[1] The New International Encyclopedia. Vol. 23 (2nd ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1916. p. 731.

[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Chisholm 1911.

[3] Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874–1914. Routledge. 2017.

[4] J. Wislicenus and W. Hentschel (1893) "Der Pentamethenylalkohol und seine Derivate" (Cyclopentanol and its derivatives), Annalen der Chemie, 275 : 322-330; see especially pages 327-330. Wislicenus prepared cyclopentane from cyclopentanone ("Ketopentamethen"), which is prepared by heating calcium adipate.

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