Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German chemist
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund
- Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund (15 December 1884 – 8 February 1965) was a German chemist.
- He was born in Berlin and died in Kiel. Rosenmund studied chemistry and received his Ph.D.
- 1906 from University of Berlin for his work with Otto Paul Hermann Diels.
- He discovered the Rosenmund reduction, which is the reduction of acyl chlorides to aldehydes over palladium-on-carbon catalyst.
- The Rosenmund-von Braun reaction, the conversion of an aryl bromide to an arylnitrile is also named after him.
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