Carl Magnus von Hell (8 September 1849 – 11 December 1926) was the German chemist who discovered, together with
Jacob Volhard and the Russian chemist
Nikolay Zelinsky
Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky (; 6 February 1861 – 31 July 1953) was a Russian Empire, Russian and USSR, Soviet chemist. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929).
Zelinsky studied at the University of Odessa and at the ...
, the
Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky halogenation reaction.
Life
He studied chemistry at the
Technical University of Stuttgart with
Hermann von Fehling and at the
University of Munich with
Emil Erlenmeyer. After serving in the
Franco-Prussian war in 1870 he became assistant professor, and after the death of Fehling in 1883, professor for chemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart. He supervised the building of the new laboratory which was finished in 1895/96. His research interests have been
dicarboxylic acid
In organic chemistry, a dicarboxylic acid is an organic compound containing two carboxyl groups (). The general molecular formula for dicarboxylic acids can be written as , where R can be aliphatic or aromatic. In general, dicarboxylic acids show ...
s,
aliphatic hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, hydrocarbons ( compounds composed solely of carbon and hydrogen) are divided into two classes: aromatic compounds and aliphatic compounds (; G. ''aleiphar'', fat, oil). Aliphatic compounds can be saturated, like hexane, o ...
s and their synthesis. He synthesized the C
60H
122 showing that carbon chains of up to 60 atoms are possible.
Due to an eye illness he asked for retirement in 1914.
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1849 births
1926 deaths
20th-century German chemists
19th-century German chemists
Scientists from Stuttgart