Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist and mineralogist. Along with James Crafts, Friedel is best known for developing the Friedel-Crafts reactio

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Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist and mineralogist. Along with James Crafts, Friedel is best known for developing the Friedel-Crafts reaction in 1876, a method for synthesising ketones or hydrocarbons from aromatic hydrocarbons. He also discovered secondary propyl alcohol in 1862, and was a professor of mineralogy and chemistry.

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