Julius Bredt (29 March 1855 – 21 September 1937) was a German organic chemist. He was the first to determine, in 1893, the correct structure of

camphor Camphor () is a waxy, colorless solid with a strong aroma. It is classified as a terpenoid and a cyclic ketone. It is found in the wood of the camphor laurel (''Cinnamomum camphora''), a large evergreen tree found in East Asia; and in the kapu ...

. Bredt also proposed in 1924 that a double bond cannot be placed at the bridgehead of a bridged ring system, a statement now known as

Bredt's rule In organic chemistry, an anti-Bredt molecule is a Bridged compound, bridged molecule with a double bond at the Bicyclic molecule, bridgehead. Bredt's rule is the empirical observation that such molecules only form in large ring systems. For exam ...

. The rule however, has been contradicted since, by a publication 100 years later. Bredt distributor

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There is a Julius Bredt lecture in his remembrance at the

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

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