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GERHARDT, Charles Frédéric (1816 – 1856)

GERHARDT, Charles Frédéric (1816 – 1856)

1816 – 1856

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1853 CE

#6971

Untersuchungen über die wasserfreien organischen Säuren.

In 1853 French chemist Gerhardt was the first to prepare acetylsalicylic acid (marketed by Bayer as asprin in 1899). Gerhardt called the compound he obtained "salicylic-acetic anhydride" (wasserfreie Salicylsäure…