Cläre () Hunsdiecker (1903-1995) was a German Chemist who worked with her husband Heinz Hunsdiecker to improve a reaction of

Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin ( rus, link=no, Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin , p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin, a=RU-Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin.ogg, ...

now known as the

Hunsdiecker reaction The Hunsdiecker reaction (also called the Borodin reaction or the Hunsdiecker–Borodin reaction) is a name reaction in organic chemistry whereby silver salts of carboxylic acids react with a halogen to produce an organic halide. It is an exam ...

. They received both US and German patents for the work.

Education

Hunsdiecker earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. For many years it was not believed that a photographic image of Hunsdiecker was in existence. In 2020 an image was located by an undergraduate student at the University of Melbourne.

References

1903 births 1995 deaths Place of birth missing Place of death missing 20th-century German chemists German women chemists 20th-century German women {{Germany-chemist-stub