KOLBE Hermann

Adolphe Wilhelm Hermann KOLBE was a “contributor in the birth of modern organic chemistry”:

Kolbe promoted the idea that organic compounds could be derived from substances clearly sourced from outside this “organic” context, directly or indirectly, by substitution processes. (Hence, while by modern definitions, he was converting one organic molecule to another, by the parlance of his era, he was converting “inorganic” into “organic” once only thought accessible through vital processes.)
In particular, Kolbe developed procedures for the electrolysis of the salts of fatty and other carboxylic acids (Kolbe electrolysis) and prepared salicylic acid, a building block of aspirin in a process called Kolbe synthesis or Kolbe-Schmitt reaction.

KOLBE was born in 1818 in Elliehausen/Göttingen.
He died in 1884 in Leipzig.

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