Carl Mannich (1877-1947)

German pharmaceutical chemist, professor in Göttingen, Frankfurt and, from 1927, at the University of Berlin, where he directed the Pharmaceutical Institute. In 1912 he described the aminomethylation of carbonyl compounds with formaldehyde and amines, the Mannich reaction.

Much of his work was devoted to the synthesis of pharmacologically interesting compounds.

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