Grignard, Victor

Name:
Grignard, Victor
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(1871–1935). A French chemist who worked with Sabatier to win the Nobel Prize in 1912. He authored “Theses sur les combinaisons organomagnesiennes mixtes et leurs applications a des syntheses.” As a student of Berbier, he went from Lyons to Besancon to Nancy, France. He discovered organomagnesium compounds that are used for organic synthesis by the Grignard reaction.