August Bischler (29 April 1865 – 26 May 1957) was a Russian Empire-born ethnic Crimea German

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who later emigrated to Switzerland. He discovered the Bischler–Möhlau indole synthesis reaction in 1892 and, together with Bernard Napieralski, discovered the

Bischler–Napieralski reaction The Bischler–Napieralski reaction is an intramolecular electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction that allows for the cyclization of β-arylethylamides or β-arylethylcarbamates. It was first discovered in 1893 by August Bischler and , in affi ...

in 1893.

Life

He received his Ph.D. at the

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in 1889, worked at the

, and from 1899 at the

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. After becoming a Swiss citizen in 1925 he worked in the chemical industry in

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Bernard Napieralski

Bernard Napieralski was a Ph.D. student of Bischler at the

in 1893. Napieralski was born in Ostrowy,

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, 1861.

References

* 1865 births 1957 deaths Chemists from the Russian Empire University of Zurich alumni Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Switzerland 20th-century Swiss chemists {{chemist-stub