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BAEYER, JOHANN See also:FRIEDRICH WILHELM ADOLF VON (1835– ) , See also:German chemist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 31st of See also:October 1835, his See also:father being Johann See also:Jacob von Baeyer (1994–1885), See also:chief of the Berlin Geodetical See also:Institute from 187o. He studied See also:chemistry under R. W. See also:Bunsen and F. A. See also:Kekule, and in 1858 took his degree as Ph.D. at Berlin, becoming privatdocent a few years afterwards and assistant See also:professor in 1866. Five years later he was appointed professor of chemistry at See also:Strassburg, and in 1875 he migrated in the same capacity to See also:Munich. He devoted himself mainly to investigations in organic chemistry, and in particular to synthetical studies by the aid of " condensation " reactions. The Royal Society of See also:London awarded him the See also:Davy See also:medal in 1881 for his researches on See also:indigo, the nature and See also:composition of which he did more to elucidate than any other single chemist, and which he also succeeded in preparing artificially, though his methods were not found commercially practicable. To celebrate his seventieth birthday his scientific papers were collected and published in two volumes (Gesammelte Werke, See also:Brunswick, 1905), and the names of the headings under which they are grouped give some See also:idea of the range and extent of his chemical See also:work: (1) organic See also:arsenic compounds, (2) uric See also:acid See also:group, (3) indigo, (4) papers arising from indigo researches, (5) See also:pyrrol and See also:pyridine bases, (6) experiments on the elimination of See also:water and on condensation, (7) the phthaleins, (8) the hydro-aromatic compounds, (9) the See also:terpenes, (1o) nitroso compounds, (11) furfurol, (12) See also:acetylene compounds and " See also:strain " (Spannungs) theory, (13) peroxides, (14) basic properties of See also:oxygen, (15) dibenzalacetone and triphenylamine, (16) various researches on the aromatic and (17) the aliphatic See also:series.

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