Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph von (1835–1917)
German organic chemist who was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for his synthesis of indigo. He also investigated
uric acid derivatives, discovered the
phthalein dyes, and devised a "strain" theory to account for the stability
and conformation of carbon compounds with
five-membered and six-membered rings. Related category
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