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Jacob Volhard

Jacob Volhard was the German chemist who discovered, together with his student Hugo Erdmann, the Volhard–Erdmann cyclization reaction. He was also responsible for the improvement of the Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky halogenation.

Selected works
Die Begründung der Chemie durch Lavoisier, 1870 – The founding of chemistry by Antoine Lavoisier. • Experiments in general chemistry and introduction to chemical analysis, 1889; Analytic tables by Clemens Zimmermann, translated by Edward Renouf. • August Wilhelm von Hofmann : ein Lebensbild im Auftrage der Deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft, 1902 – Biography of August Wilhelm von Hofmann. • Justus von Liebig (2 volumes, 1909) – Biography of Justus von Liebig. ==See also==
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