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Abstract Volume 24
(2019) pp 135-135
Marcel Delépine, A Long-lived French Chemist
George B. Kauffman*
Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740-8034, georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu
Published: 5 November
2019
Abstract. Stéphane Marcel Delépine, a French pharmacist and chemist, whose name is
associated with the Delépine reaction for the preparation of primary amines,
was born on September 19, 1871, in Saint-Martin-le-Gaillard, and died on
September 21, 1965. He studied at the Sorbonne and at the École Supérieure de
Pharmacie in Paris and received his doctorate in 1898. He served as préparateur at the Collège de France (1895–1902). In 1902 he was named chief pharmacist
to the hospitals of Paris, a position that he kept until 1927. Delépine’s work involved research in the fields of
organic, inorganic and general chemistry. He made contributions in his
investigations of terpenes, platinum group metals (iridium and rhodium),
compounds of sulfur, etc. In 1935 he described a general method for catalytic
hydrogenation with Raney nickel. He discovered the phenomena of
“oxyluminescence” and discovered a new process for preparing pure tungsten..
Key Words: Chemistry and History; Nobel Prize
(*) Corresponding author.
(E-mail: georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu)
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