Auguste Georges Darzens (12 July 1867 in

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, Russia – 10 September 1954) was a Russian-born French

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From 1886 he studied at the

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under Louis Édouard Grimaux. In 1895 he received his agrégation in

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and in 1899 his medical doctorate. From 1913 to 1937, he was a professor of chemistry at the École Polytechnique. In the meantime, from 1897 to 1920, he served as director of a research laboratory at LT Piver, a perfumery outfit. In 1904, he discovered the

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, a

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also known as the Darzens condensation and Darzens glycidic ester condensation.Darzens, G., Compt. Rend. 1904, 139, 1214 Other reactions named after him include the Darzens tetralin synthesis, Darzens halogenation and the Darzens synthesis of unsaturated ketones. His book, "''Initiation chimique''" (1909), was translated into English in 1913 and published with the title of "Chemistry".Chemistry
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1867 births 1954 deaths Academic staff of École Polytechnique 20th-century French chemists Russian emigrants to France {{france-chemist-stub

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