Eugene G. Rochow

Eugene George Rochow ( born October 4, 1909 in Newark, New Jersey; † 21 March 2002 in Fort Myers, Florida ) was an American chemist.

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Rochow worked on organosilicon compounds and developed in 1940 independently by Richard Müller a process for the production of organochlorosilanes, which is now called the Müller -Rochow synthesis. Method be based on the use of copper as a catalyst to cause a reaction of the silicon to bring about with methylene chloride.