Meyer, Louis

This reagent appears quite frequently in the older literature it was used by Victor Meyer in his classic synthesis of thiophene from disodium succinate. It appears that it is (or was) a mixture, with phosphorus heptasulfide (P4S7) being a major component. Louis and Mary Fieser126 quote, with obvious relish, an out-of-doors preparation from red phosphorus and sulfur which often gives an excellent display of fireworks. A standard preparation of 3-methylthiophene uses the heptasulfide.127... 

Nickel in Meteorites. Centuries before the discovery of nickel, primitive peoples shaped meteoric iron into implements and swords and appreciated the superiority of this Heaven-sent metal (125). In 1777 J. K. F. Meyer of Stettin noticed that when he added sulfuric acid to some native iron which P. S. Pallas had found in Siberia, he obtained a green solution which became blue when it was treated with ammonium hydroxide. In 1799 Joseph-Louis Proust detected nickel in meteoric iron from Peru (126). This grayish white native iron had been observed by Rubin de Celis. Since it did not rust, it was sometimes mistaken for native silver. 

Many prominent colleagues who have worked in computational chemistry have passed away since about the time this book series began. These include (in alphabetical order) Jan Almlof, Russell J. Bacquet, Jeremy K. Burdett, Jean-Louis Calais, Michael J. S. Dewar, Russell S. Drago, Kenichi Fukui, Joseph Gerratt, Hans H. Jaffe, Wlodzimierz Kolos, Bowen Liu, Per-Olov Lowdin, Amatzya Y. Meyer, William E. Palke, Bernard Pullman, Robert... 

The name benzene was disputed in the 19th century. V. Meyer proposed "benzene from benzoin because the means of preparing pure benzene involved decarboxylation of benzoic acid using sodium hydroxide at high temperature (otherwise, thiophene was an impurity that proved difficult to remove). Benzoic acid was obtained from gum benzoin as a white powder. On the other hand, Auguste Laurent, who inter alia taught crystallography to Louis... 

Guy Meyer, of Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France, came to IPNs through a consideration of semi-IPNs as adhesives.In addition to many scientific papers on IPNs and related materials contributed by numerous authors, the burgeoning patent literature describes quite different approaches to IPN chemistry and technology. " ... 

Bolhuis PG, Louis AA, Hansen IP, Meyer EJ (2001) J Chem Phys 114 4296... 

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