Wilhelm Clemens Lossen (8 May 1838 in Kreuznach – 29 October 1906 in Aachen) was a German chemist. He was the brother of geologist Karl August Lossen.[1]
From 1857 he studied chemistry at the University of Giessen, then continued his education at Göttingen as a pupil of Friedrich Wöhler. After graduation, he worked as an assistant to Karl Weltzien at the polytechnic in Karlsruhe and as an assistant under Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz at the University of Halle. In 1870 he became an associate professor at Heidelberg, then in 1877 accepted a position as professor of chemistry at the University of Königsberg.[2][3]
He is largely known for his work with hydroxylamines; their preparations, properties and derivatives. The eponymous Lossen rearrangement, refers to the decomposition of hydroxamic acids or their derivatives to yield isocyanates.[4][5]
While a student at Göttingen, he conducted research of cocaine with Albert Niemann. After the untimely death of Niemann in 1861, he continued research of the drug and was able to determine its proper chemical formula. The two scientists also performed studies on the effect of cocaine on mucous membranes.[6]
^Petroianu, G.A. (2009). "History of methyl phosphoric esters: Hall, Weger, and Lossen". Die Pharmazie. 64 (12): 840–845. doi:10.1691/ph.2009.9113. PMID 20095145.
^Lossen, Wilhelm In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6, S. 202
^Lossen 2 Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
^Alexander R. Surrey (22 October 2013). Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry. Elsevier. pp. 160–. ISBN 978-1-4832-5868-3.
^Sanjeev Jena (29 October 2014). ORGANIC REACTIONS AND MECHANISM THROUGH SOLVED PROBLEMS. Lulu.com. pp. 102–. ISBN 978-1-312-62476-4.
^Grzybowski, A. (2007). "The history of cocaine in medicine and its importance to the discovery of the different forms of anaesthesia". Klinka Oczna. 109 (1–3): 101–105. PMID 17687926.
Wilhelm Clemens Lossen (8 May 1838 in Kreuznach – 29 October 1906 in Aachen) was a German chemist. He was the brother of geologist Karl August Lossen...
The Lossen rearrangement is the conversion of a hydroxamate ester to an isocyanate. Typically O-acyl, sulfonyl, or phosphoryl O-derivative are employed...
entrepreneur, owner of the major brewery Anheuser-Busch WilhelmLossen (1838–1906), chemist Karl August Lossen (1841–1894), geologist Erich Prieger (1849–1913)...
Linnemann Edmund Oscar von Lippmann Georg Lockemann Oscar Loew Lotte Loewe WilhelmLossen Carl Jacob Löwig Georg Lunge Paul Luther Hermann Lux Heinrich Gustav...
Portrait of Josef Gotthard Lossen (1795–1866), Portrait of Maria Anna Lossen, born Cathrein (1806–1887) and Portrait of Maximilian Lossen Daelen, Eduard; "Böttcher...
Amtsmann John Gottowt as Lucas Edith Posca as Susanne Lina Lossen as Frau Amtmann Wilhelm Diegelmann as Amtsvorsteher Eugen Rex as Amtsdiener Sophie Pagay...
prepared as hydroxylammonium chloride in 1865 by the German chemist Wilhelm Clemens Lossen (1838-1906); he reacted tin and hydrochloric acid in the presence...
(1858–1947) Carl von Linné (1707–1778) Henri Longchambon (1896–1969) Karl August Lossen (1841–1893) Felix Karl Ludwig Machatschki (1895–1970) George Mackenzie (1780–1848)...
physicist considered the founder of modern Poisson geometry Karl August Lossen (1841–1893) – geologist who mapped and described the Harz Mountains Jonathan...
d'Andreas Masius. In: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 9 (1978), 141-158. M. Lossen, Briefe von Andreas Masius und seinen Freunden (1538) J. W. Wesselius, The...
be converted to isocyanates through intermediate hydroxamic acids in the Lossen rearrangement. Sources of carbon nucleophiles, e.g., Grignard reagents and...
Karl August Katzer (1822–1904), Sorbian composer and conductor Karl August Lossen (1841–1893), German petrologist and geologist Karl August Mobius (1825–1908)...
8°4′E / 58.067°N 8.067°E / 58.067; 8.067 (German cruiser Karlsruhe) HDMS Lossen Denmark-Norway 25 December 1717 A frigate wrecked off Hvaler in the Christmas...
Franz Maximilian Groedel (1881-1951), Hans Liniger (1863-1933) and Heinz Lossen (1893-1967) formulated the first guidelines after the First World War. In...
Knuth Anna Magdalena Bach Friedemann Bach (1941); Germany; German Lina Lossen The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968); West Germany; German Christiane...
cross the valley in various places. First described by the geologist, K. A. Lossen. Kästental: ("Box Valley") A small side valley of the Bode with a little...
Gregori Chmara Drama The Duke of Aleria Heinz Schall Johannes Riemann, Lina Lossen, Erich Kaiser-Titz Silent Earth Spirit Leopold Jessner Asta Nielsen, Albert...
Corder Silent Miss Julie Felix Basch Asta Nielsen, William Dieterle, Lina Lossen Drama Miss Rockefeller Is Filming Erich Schönfelder Paul Otto, Stella Arbenina...