Louis Bouveault
Louis Bouveault | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 February 1864 Nevers, France |
| Died | 5 September 1909 (aged 45) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Chemist |
Louis Bouveault (11 February 1864 – 5 September 1909) was a French scientist who became professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris.He is known for the Bouveault aldehyde synthesis and the Bouveault–Blanc reduction.
Life
[edit]Louis Bouveault was born on 11 February 1864 in Nevers.[1][2]He obtained doctorates in Paris in medicine and physical sciences.[3] Bouveault defended his thesis on β-keto nitriles and their derivatives in Paris in 1890.[citation needed] He taught for a short period at the Medical Faculty in Lyon, then became a lecturer in general chemistry in Lyon.[citation needed] He influenced Victor Grignard to take up chemistry in 1894. In Lyon he investigated syntheses with camphor and terpenes.[4]
Bouveault moved on from Lyon to Lille, Nancy and finally to Paris.[3]He was appointed professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris.[1]
In 1903 Bouveault and Gustave Louis Blanc described the Bouveault–Blanc reduction[5][6][7] for reduction of esters to the corresponding alcohols in an alcoholic solvent.[8]
In 1904 he described the Bouveault aldehyde synthesis,[9][10] a formylation of an alkyl or aryl halide to the homologous aldehyde or carbaldehyde.[11]
In 1907 he was elected president of the French Chemical Society.[12] He died on 5 September 1909.[1]
Publications
[edit]Bouveault was a prolific author, who published many papers in his short career.[12]Two longer works:[1]
- Bouveault, Louis (1890), Thèses présentées à la Faculté des sciences de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès-sciences physiques, par M. L. Bouveault,... Sur les Nitrites Bêta cétoniques et leurs dérivés, Blois: Grande Imprimerie, p. 94
- Bouveault, Louis (1892), Etudes chimiques de la bacille de la tuberculose aviaire, Paris
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Notes
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Louis Bouveault ... BnF.
- ^ Li 2014, p. 73.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Nye 1986, p. 167.
- ^ Nye 1986, p. 166.
- ^ Bouveault, Louis; Blanc, Gustave Louis (1903). "Préparation des alcools primaires au moyen des acides correspondants" [Preparation of primary alcohols by means of the corresponding acids]. Compt. Rend. (in French). 136: 1676–1678.
- ^ Bouveault, Louis; Blanc, Gustave Louis (1903). "Préparation des alcools primaires au moyen des acides correspondants" [Preparation of primary alcohols by means of the corresponding acids]. Compt. Rend. (in French). 137: 60–62.
- ^ Bouveault, Louis; Blanc, Gustave Louis (1904). "Transformation des acides monobasiques saturés dans les alcools primaires correspondants" [Transforming saturated monobasic acids into the corresponding primary alcohols]. Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. (in French). 31: 666–672.
- ^ Li 2014, p. 74.
- ^ Bouveault, Louis (1904). "Modes de formation et de préparation des aldéhydes saturées de la série grasse" [Methods of preparation of saturated aldehydes of the aliphatic series]. Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. (in French). 31: 1306–1322.
- ^ Bouveault, Louis (1904). "Nouvelle méthode générale synthétique de préparation des aldéhydes" [Novel general synthetic method for preparing aldehydes]. Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. (in French). 31: 1322–1327.
- ^ Li 2014, p. 72–73.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Surrey 2013, p. 27.
Sources
[edit]- Li, Jie Jack (30 January 2014), Name Reactions: A Collection of Detailed Mechanisms and Synthetic Applications Fifth Edition, Springer Science & Business Media, ISBN 978-3-319-03979-4, retrieved 10 December 2015
- "Louis Bouveault (1864-1909)" (in French). BnF. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- Nye, Mary Jo (1986), Science in the Provinces: Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France, 1860-1930, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-05561-2, retrieved 10 December 2015
- Surrey, Alexander R. (22 October 2013), Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry, Elsevier, ISBN 978-1-4832-5868-3, retrieved 10 December 2015
