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摘要
August Wilhelm Hofmann, 1818-1892, discovered many of the functional groups of organophosphorus chemistry, including primary, secondary, and tertiary phosphines, oxides and sulfides of the latter, phosphonic and phosphinic acids and their chloro derivatives, dithiophosphinic acids, tetraalkyl phosphonium hydroxides, and Lewis salts from both tertiary phosphines and their oxides. Some of his procedures are still in use today. Some fundamental properties of these groups were also discovered. In spite of these contributions, much current literature fails to recognize him as the founder of the field, generally giving credit to Carl Arnold August Michaelis and sometimes to Alexander E. Arbuzov, both of whom followed Hofmann chronologically. The contributions of Michaelis and Arbusov were indeed most impressive and extensive. However, the case made in this paper, established by studying the original German literature, will be that August W. Hofmann deserves recognition as the originator of the field of organophosphorus chemistry, indeed as the founding father of the field.
- 出版日期2013-7
