Victor Grignard

François Auguste Victor Grignard ( born May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg, † December 13, 1935 in Lyon, IPA: ɡriɲar ) was a French chemist.

Life

Grignard was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he shared with Paul Sabatier, "for the discovered by him called Grignard'sche reagent which has been promoting in recent years to a high degree the progress of organic chemistry".

The notified also by Victor Grignard Grignard reaction is of great importance for the synthetic production of alcohols.

His professor has taken him to Besançon in 1905, 1906 Lyon, 1909 to Nancy and 1919 again to Lyon, where he was head of the industrial since 1921 École de Chimie. From 1926 Grignard was a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

His interests were in addition to organic magnesium compounds and the toluene and its production, the terpenes and essential oils, aluminoorganischen compounds and hydrogenation and cracking reactions. He was also involved in the synthesis of phosgene, a poison gas used in World War II.

The lunar crater Grignard was named after him.