| RefNo | EC/1890/10 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 184 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Perkin, William Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Professor of Chemistry in the Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh. Ex-Privatdocent and Assistant in the Chemical Research Laboratory of the University of Munich. Distinguished as an Investigator, especially in devising new synthetic methods for the preparation of organic compounds containing closed carbon chains and in studying the properties of this important class of substances. This work has attracted great attention, both in this country and on the continent. Author, and joint author, of upwards of fifty papers, published partly in the Journal of the Chemical Society, and partly in the Berichte of the German Chemical Society. Amongst others: - 'Condensation Products of Oenanthol,' 'Condensation Products of Isobutylaldehyde,' 'Benzoylacetic Acid and some of its Derivatives,' 'Synthetical Formation of Closed Carbon Chains,' 'Action of Trimethylene Bromide on Ethylic Aceto-acetate, Benzoyl-acetate and Malonate,' 'Action of Ethylene Bromide on Ethylic Aceto-acetate and Benzoyl-acetate,' 'Action of Ethylene Bromide on Ethylic Malonate,' 'Trimethylene Derivatives,' 'Some Derivatives of Tetramethylene,' 'Pentamethylene Dicarboxylic Acid,' 'Some Derivatives of Hexamethylene,' 'Derivatives of Hydrindonaphthene,' 'New Synthesis of Naphthalene Derivatives,' 'Dehydracetic Acid,' 'Phenylenediacrylic Acid,' 'Paranitro-benzoylacetic Acid,' 'Ethylic Diacetyladipate,' 'On Kamala,' and 'On Berberine.' As a teacher he has been especially successful in suggesting and directing research work, a sevinced by the number of papers he has published in conjunction with his students. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge: J Emerson Reynolds
From Personal Knowledge: F R Japp; Adolf von Baeyer; E Frankland; W J Russell; Alex Crum Brown; T E Thorpe; William A Tilden; W Crookes; J H Gladstone; Herbert McLeod |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8087 | Perkin; William Henry (1860 - 1929) | 1860 - 1929 |