Theodor Curtius
German chemist (1857–1928) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Geheimrat Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius (27 May 1857 – 8 February 1928) was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University and elsewhere. He published the Curtius rearrangement in 1890/1894 and also discovered diazoacetic acid, hydrazine and hydrazoic acid.In 1882 he carried out the first ever peptide synthesis, creating the N-protected dipeptide, benzoylglycylglycine[1]
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Theodor Curtius | |
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Born | Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius (1857-05-27)27 May 1857 |
Died | 8 February 1928(1928-02-08) (aged 70) Heidelberg, Weimar Republic |
Known for | Curtius rearrangement Büchner–Curtius–Schlotterbeck reaction |
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Institutions | University of Heidelberg |
Doctoral advisor | Hermann Kolbe |
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