Philippe Barbier
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Philippe A. Barbier was a French
organic chemist
. He is considered the father of organometallic chemistry
having synthesized the first organomagnesium compound in 1899. He is most famous for the Barbier reaction
.
Barbier was Victor Grignard
's supervisor during his PhD
. A method to prepare reactive Grignard reagents such as Allylic Magensium halides is known as the Barbier method, where the Grignard reagent is made in situ with the other reagent.
France
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organic chemist
Organic chemistry
Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives...
. He is considered the father of organometallic chemistry
Organometallic chemistry
Organometallic chemistry is the study of chemical compounds containing bonds between carbon and a metal. Since many compounds without such bonds are chemically similar, an alternative may be compounds containing metal-element bonds of a largely covalent character...
having synthesized the first organomagnesium compound in 1899. He is most famous for the Barbier reaction
Barbier reaction
The Barbier reaction is an organic reaction between an alkyl halide and a carbonyl group as an electrophilic substrate in the presence of magnesium, aluminium, zinc, indium, tin or its salts. The reaction product is a primary, secondary or tertiary alcohol...
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Barbier was Victor Grignard
Victor Grignard
François Auguste Victor Grignard was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist.Grignard was the son of a sail maker. After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry and discovered the synthetic reaction bearing his name in 1900...
's supervisor during his PhD
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. A method to prepare reactive Grignard reagents such as Allylic Magensium halides is known as the Barbier method, where the Grignard reagent is made in situ with the other reagent.