Heinz Hunsdiecker (22 January 1904 – 22 November 1981) was a German chemist who together with his wife

Cläre Hunsdiecker Cläre Hunsdiecker () (1903–1995) was a German chemist who worked with her husband Heinz Hunsdiecker (1904–1981) to improve a reaction of Alexander Borodin now known as the Hunsdiecker reaction. They received both US and German patents for ...

(1903–1995) improved a reaction of

Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 183327 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as " The Five", a group dedicated to prod ...

now known as the

Hunsdiecker reaction The Hunsdiecker reaction (also called the Borodin reaction or the Hunsdiecker–Borodin reaction) is a name reaction in organic chemistry whereby silver salts of carboxylic acids react with a halogen to produce an organic halide. It is an ex ...

. They received both US and German patents for the work.

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