French Organic Society

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Jean Rodriguez was born in Gieza, Spain, on 25 June 1958, and in 1959 his family emigrated to France. After studying chemistry at the University Paul Cezanne in Marseille, France, he completed his PhD as a CNRS student with Prof. B. Waegell and Prof. P. Brun in 1987. He completed his Habilitation in 1992, also at Marseille, where he is currently Professor and Director of the UMR-CNRS-6178-SYMBIO. His research interests include the development of domino and multicomponent reactions, and their applications in stereoselective synthesis. In 1998, he was awarded the Acros prize in Organic Chemistry from the French Chemical Society. 

Combes, A. Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. 1888, 49, 89. Alphonse-Edmond Combes (1858—1896) was bom in St. Hippolyte-du-Fort, France. He apprenticed with Wurtz at Paris. He also collaborated with Charles Friedel of the Friedel-Crafts reaction fame. He became the president of the French Chemical Society in 1893 at the age of 35. His sudden death shortly after his 38 birthday was a great loss to organic chemistry. 

Friedel, C. Crafts, J. M. Compt. Rend. 1877, 84, 1392. Charles Friedel (1832-1899) was born in Strasbourg, France. He earned his Ph.D. in 1869 under Wurtz at Sorbonne and became a professor and later chair (1884) of organic chemistry at Sorbonne. Friedel was one of the founders of the French Chemical Society and served as its president for four terms. James Mason Crafts (1839-1917) was bom in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied under Bunsen and Wurtz in his youth and became a professor at Cornell and MIT. From 1874 to 1891, Crafts collaborated with Friedel at Ecole de Mines in Paris, where they discovered the Friedel-Crafts reaction. He returned to MIT... 

Delepine, Marcel (1871- ) French chemist professor at Ecole de Pharmacie and at the College de France. Professor Delepine s published researches have been many varied in the fields of organic, inorganic optical chemistry. Also many honors have come to him including president of the French Chemical Society and the rank of Officer in the Legion of Honor Ref R.E.Oesper, JChemEduc 27, 567-68 (1950) CA 45, 7 (1951)... 

Le Bel was born into a wealthy family that controlled the petroleum industry in Pechelbronn, Alsace. In 1865 he was sent to the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris to obtain a chemical education and spent most of his time there doing chemical research. After graduation, he worked with the French chemists Antoine Balard and Adolphe Wurtz in Paris, in between intermediate periods of refinery construction at home. Finally in 1889, he sold his shares in the family business and established a private laboratory in Paris where he devoted himself to organic chemistry and, in his later years, paleontology, botany, and philosophy. An independent thinker who never held an academic appointment, Le Bel did manage to achieve general recognition as a chemist and even became president of the French Chemical Society in 1892. 

Pierre Sinay studied chemistry at Ecole Nationale Super-ieure des Industries Chimiques, Nancy, France, and received his PhD from the University of Nancy. After his post-doctoral research at Harvard University he became Professor at the University of Orleans before he was appointed professor of organic chemistry at Pierre et Marie Curie University and Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. His main research focuses on the chemical synthesis of oligosaccharides of biological relevance and on the development of new synthetic methods in the carbohydrate field. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Carbohydrate Letters and he has published numerous scientific papers and patents. In 1987 he was elected president of the organic chemistry division of the French Chemical Society. In 1978 he was awarded the Le Bel Price of the French Chemical Society, in 1996 he was triple-honoured with the Desnuelles Price, the Bethellot Medal and with the election as corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences. 

This was the period during which Deville, Berthelot, Moissan, and other leading French chemists had persisted in the use of an outmoded chemical notation abandoned elsewhere. 16 By 1870 or so, the equivalent notation had disappeared in chemical journals outside France. French atomists sometimes used the tactics of the Sorbonne organic chemist Friedel, who wrote acetylene dichloride as C2H2C12 for the Berichte of the Berlin Chemical Society but C4H2C12 for the Comptes rendus of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 17... 

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