Rudolf Leuckart (chemist)

Carl Louis Alexander Rudolf Leuckart ( born June 23, 1854 in Giessen, † July 24, 1889 in Leipzig ) was a German chemist.

Life

Rudolf Leuckart was born in 1854 as son of the distinguished zoologist Rudolf Leuckart in Giessen. He first visited the Grand Ducal Gymnasium casting and 1869-1873 the Thomas School in Leipzig. After that, he did his military service in the Royal Saxon 8th Infantry Regiment " Prince Johann Georg" No. 107. As a reserve officer, he reached the rank of lieutenant Premier.

He then studied chemistry, physics and mineralogy at Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff in Heidelberg and at Hermann Kolbe at Leipzig, where he in 1879 Dr. phil. received his doctorate. After further studies in 1880 with Adolf von Baeyer in Munich, he habilitated in 1883 at the University of Göttingen, where he worked as an assistant and lecturer together with Hans Hübner and Victor Meyer. Later he became an associate professor.

After an accident, he died in 1889 in Leipzig.

Science

The Leuckart - Wallach reaction goes back to him (1885 ) and later to become Nobel laureate Otto Wallach ( 1892). Describes the reductive amination of ketones and aldehydes with formic acid. In addition, he conducted research on other compounds such as the isomeric Monobromzimmtsäuren and the (an- ) symmetric dimethylsuccinic.

Writings (selection )

• About Aethylharnstoff and some of its derivatives. In: Journal of Applied Chemistry 21 (1880 ), 1-38. doi: 10.1002/prac.18800210101
• About the behavior of the two isomeric Monobromzimmtsäuren against concentrated sulfuric acid. In: Reports of the German Chemical Society 15 (1882 ), 16-21. doi: 10.1002/cber.18820150106