Wohl, Alfred

Alfred Wohl (1863-1933) was born in Graudenz. West Prussia, now part of Poland. He received his Ph D. at the University of Berlin in 1886 with August von Hofmann and became professor of chemistry at the Technical University of Danzig. 

Wohl, A. Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges. 1919, 52, 51. Alfred Wohl (1863-1939), bom in Graudenz, Germany, received his Ph.D. from A. W. Hofmann. In 1904, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Technische Hochschule in Danzig. 

M. Engel, Enzymology and fermentation chemistry. Alfred Wohl s and Carl Neuberg s reaction schemes of alcoholic fermentation. The chemical point of view as characteristic of the Berlin school , Mitt.-Ges. Deutsch. Chem., Fachgruppe Gesch. Chem., 1996, 12, 3-29 [in German],... 

GStAPK-M, 2 2 1 Nr. 21290, p. 278, handwritten note by Kriiss on the meeting of the KWKW, 8 February [1918]. Citation from Emil Fischer Papers, Outgoing CC s, Emil Fischer to Alfred Wohl, 4 January 1919. 

During research into the development of a commercial synthesis of indigo in 1891, Eugen Sapper discovered an important improvement by the use of a mercury sulfate catalyst the Sapper process remained in use until 1925. During World War I, Alfred Wohl in Germany and Harry D. Gibbs and Courtney Conover in the USA, independently discovered the catalytic gas-phase oxidation of naphthalene with vanadium pentoxide. 

The most elegant method of oxidizing anthracene is gas-phase oxidation, which was first described by Alfred Wohl in 1916, in the context of an investigation into gas-phase oxidation of polynuclear aromatics, particularly for the synthesis of phthalic anhydride (PA). In addition, the oxidation of anthracene is also carried out with dichromate and, to a lesser extent, with nitric acid. 

Alfred Wohl (1863-1933), professor. University of Danzig. See Wohl, A. Chem. Ber., 1893,26,730. 

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