Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund (1884-1965)

German chemist, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Kiel.

In 1918 he described the hydrogenation of acid chlorides to aldehydes over partially poisoned palladium, the Rosenmund reduction. The synthesis of aromatic nitriles from aryl halides and copper(I) cyanide also bears his name, together with that of Julius von Braun.

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