Von Hofmann. August Wilhelm

Hexamethylphosphoramide Hoffmann, Roald, 1180 Hoffmann-I.a Roche Co., vitamin C synthesis and, 773 von Hofmann. August Wilhelm, 933 Hofmann elimination reaction. 936-938... 

Quoted in Michael Keas, "The Structure and Philosophy of Group Research August Wilhelm von Hofmann s Laboratory Research Program in London (18451865)" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1992) 50. See James S. Muspratt and A. W. Hofmann, "On Certain Processes in which Aniline Is Formed," Mem. London CS 2 (1845) 249254. on 249. 

In this vein, Liebig wrote his former student August Wilhelm von Hofmann, shortly after the latter arrived in... 

Keas, Michael N. "The Structure and Philosophy of Group Research August Wilhelm von Hofmann s Research Program in London (18451865)." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1992. 

The development of the chemical industry did not, of course, spring wholly from the work of theoreticians such as Kekule. William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), working at the age of 18 in the laboratory of August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the Royal College of Science in London, had been put to work on the synthesis of the drug quinine from aniline, the latter a coal-tar product that had been isolated by Hofmann. Perkin failed to synthesize quinine, but as a result of his... 

August Wilhelm von Hofmann, 1818-1892. German chemist who served for many years as the first professor at the Royal College of Chemistry in London Founder of the aniline dye industry He devised the simple process of preparing aniline by ultrabng benzene and reducing the nitrobenzene. He was one of the founders of the Deutsche Chem-lsche Gesellschaft, and was elected president fourteen times. See also ref. (65). 

Winderlich, Rudolf, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Aus der Hehmat, 55,... 

In the summer of 1892, although reluctant to abandon Wtirzburg, of which he had grown so fond, he accepted an appointment to the greatest professional chair that Kaiser Wilhelm s Reich had to offer, the chair of chemistry in Berlin, vacated by the death of August Wilhelm von Hofmann. Althoff, the director of the Universities Section in the Prussian Ministry of Education, promised the now forty-year-old Fischer a large new Institute. 

M. Engel and B. Engel, Chemie und Chemiker in Berlin die Ara August Wilhelm von Hofmann 1869-1892, M. Engel, Berlin, 1992. 

C. Meinel and H. Scholz, ed., Die Allianz von Wissenschaft und Industrie August Wilhelm von Hofmann 1818-1892, VCH, Weinheim, 1992. 

Formaldehyde was first produced accidentally in 1859 by the Russian-French chemist Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828-1886). It was first synthesized in 1867 by the German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) who was not, however, able to collect the compound in... 

At the time (the 1840s) there were few organic chemists of note in Great Britain, and August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-92), who had worked under Liebig (page 102), was imported to London from Germany. For an assistant, some years later, Hofmann drew a teen-age student, William Henry Perkin (1838-1907). One day, in Perkin s presence, Hofmann speculated aloud on the feasibility of syn-... 

It was first seen in a chemistry publication in 1855. The paper was written by August Wilhelm von Hofmann, but he gives no indication why he chose this term. It s an unusual case since only a few aromatic compounds are actually smelly, while many nonaromatic compounds in chemistry labs do truly stink. 

---