Roland Scholl

Roland Heinrich Scholl (30 September 1865 – 22 August 1945) was a Swiss chemist who taught at various European universities. Among his most notable achievements are the synthesis of

Scholl was one of the first persons to use the microbalance developed by Fritz Pregl, the father of microanalysis, who was a close collaborator of Scholl. In 1911, Roland Scholl and Oscar Bally published an article on the synthesis of benzanthrone by condensation of anthraquinone with glycerol, a process that would later be called the Bally-Scholl synthesis. In 1932, Scholl was the first person to synthesise coronene.

Over the course of his career, Scholl published about 180 scientific articles. He became a member of the

• Scholl, Roland (July–October 1903). "Untersuchungen über Indanthren und Flavanthren I".
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  . Scholl's first article on the vat dyes Indanthrene and Flavanthrene
• Scholl, Roland (January–March 1910). "Pyranthron, ein stickstofffreies Methinanalogon des Flavanthrens, und Dimethylpyranthron".
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  . On the first synthesis of pyranthron
• Bally, Oscar; Scholl, Roland (May–June 1911). "Einwirkung von Glycerin und Schwefelsäure auf amidierte und auf stickstofffreie Verbindungen der Anthracen-Reihe: Benzanthron und seine Reduktionsprodukte, nebst Bemerkungen über Namenbildung und Ortsbezeichnung hochgegliederter Ringsysteme der Anthracen-Reihe".
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  . Description of the Bally-Scholl synthesis
• Scholl, Roland;
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  . On the first synthesis of coronene
• Scholl, Roland; Holdermann, Karl; Seer, Christian (May 1949). "Versuche zur Darstellung von Harnsäure durch Oxydation nichtcyclischer Aminosäureamide. (Unter Mitwirkung von Paul Walenta.)".
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  . Scholl's final article, written from memory in the refugee camp