Carl Magnus von Hell (Stuttgart, September 8, 1849 - Stuttgart, December 11, 1926) was a German chemist, known for Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky's hydrocarbon reaction and for his research on hydrocarbons. Vitamodifica wikitesto
The son of an imperial official, he was born in Stuttgart and first attended a commercial school. After a short career as a grocer, interest in natural sciences was overwhelming, and he studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart with Hermann von Fehling and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich with Emil Erlenmeyer. In 1870 he participated as a volunteer to the Franco-Prussian War and was seriously injured. Once he was cured, he became assistant to Fehling and taught organic and theoretical chemistry. In 1883, at Fehling's retirement, he became a professor of chemistry. He was very active in the teaching of chemistry and supervised the construction of new laboratories that were completed during the winter semester 1895/96. From 1896 to 1899 he was rector of the University of Stuttgart. His research mainly concerned aliphatic hydrocarbons and dicarboxylic acids. In 1889 he synthesized the molecule C60H122, which at that time was the highest known molecular weight aliphatic hydrocarbon, proving that chains of 60 carbon atoms could be constructed. It introduced a new simple procedure for the bromination of carboxylic acids, now known as Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky's halogenation. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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