Bernd Eistert (1902-1978)

German chemist. He was a student and co-worker of Fritz Arndt at the University of Breslau, with whom he published in 1935 the method for homologating carboxylic acids through diazoketones: the Arndt-Eistert synthesis.

He later worked in the chemical industry (BASF, in Ludwigshafen) and was professor of organic chemistry at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. Much of his work dealt with the chemistry of diazomethane and diazo compounds and with tautomerism.