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Victor Grignard and Paul Sabatier: Two Showcase Laureates of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Author(s) -
Kagan Henri B.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201201849
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , chemistry , grignard reagent , reagent , organic chemistry , history , archaeology
Looking back one hundred years : The two 1912 Nobel Laureates of Chemistry are featured within the context of the academic world in France. Grignard discovered the preparation and use of organomagnesium reagents (see scheme). Sabatier established the addition of hydrogen to unsaturated compounds in the presence of catalytic amounts of nickel.