Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (27 September 1818 – 25 November 1884) was a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor...

The Kolbe–Schmitt reaction or Kolbe process (named after Hermann Kolbe and Rudolf Schmitt) is a carboxylation chemical reaction that proceeds by treating...

The Kolbe electrolysis or Kolbe reaction is an organic reaction named after Hermann Kolbe. The Kolbe reaction is formally a decarboxylative dimerisation...

word synthesis was used first in a chemical context by the chemist Hermann Kolbe. Many strategies exist in chemical synthesis that are more complicated...

Kolbe is a surname. Those bearing it include: Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist Andreas Kolbe (fl. 1557), German printer, prominent...

cyanide ion is an ambident nucleophile. The reaction is named after Hermann Kolbe. R − X alkyl   halide + CN ⊖ cyanide   ion ⟶ R − C ≡ N alkyl   nitrile...

Georg Ludwig Carius, Heinrich Limpricht, Rudolph Fittig, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, Albert Niemann, Vojtěch Šafařík, Wilhelm Kühne, and Augustus Voelcker...

salicylic acid, both in vivo and through chemical methods. In 1869, Hermann Kolbe synthesised salicylic acid, although it was too acidic for the gastric...

radical of the acetic acid. The modern term was coined by German chemist Hermann Kolbe in 1851, who rebutted Liebig's hypothesis. However even in 1860 Marcellin...

French chemist Pierre Adet proved them identical. In 1845 German chemist Hermann Kolbe synthesised acetic acid from inorganic compounds for the first time...