Jacobus Henricus van’ t Hoff |
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| Authors: | G Nagendrappa |
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| Institution: | (1) # 13, Basappa Layout Gavipuram Extension, Bangalore, 560 019, India |
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| Abstract: | J H van’ t Hoff is considered as one of the greatest chemists of all time. He started his career as an organic chemist. He
solved the vexing problem of optical isomerism by proposing an asymmetric tetrahedral carbon bonded to form different groups.
He extended this to include geometric isomerism, and to compounds with heteroatoms in place of asymmetric carbon. Thus he
established the ‘chemistry in space’ or stereochemistry. He moved on to work on reaction kinetics, equilibria, thermodynamic
properties of dilute solutions and related areas. He laid the foundation for physical chemistry through these discoveries
and was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901. van’ t Hoff died of tuberculosis at a relatively early age of
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