Heinrich Rheinboldt, German/Brazilian chemist (Karlsruhe, Baden 11 August 1891 – São Paulo 05 December 1955)
The famous chemist Heinrich Caro, one of founders of BASF, was his grandfather
Authored 181 publications, being 5 books
Gained international recognition in complexes chemistry
Developed thaw-melt method for studying binary systems in thermal analysis
With K. Henning & M. Kircheisen. Eine method zur untersuchung binarer systeme. I. J. Prakt. Chem. 111:242, 1925.
Reported that most of adducts were 1:1 or 1:2 compounds
Zuzammensetzung und Aufbau organischer Molekulverbindung. Z. Angew. Chem. 39:765, 1926.
Rheinboldt reaction
Eine einfache reaktion auf sulfhydrylgruppen. Ber. 60:184-6, 1927
First to obtain selenium trioxide (1930)
Prepared the first sulfenyl iodide
With E. Motzkus. Chem. Ber. 72 B:657-67, 1939.
Enunciated a new principle for classifying molecular organic compounds
With P. Senise. Sobre um novo princípio de classificação dos compostos orgânicos moleculares. Quimica 1:3-14, 1942.
Discovered with Giesbrecht, selenenyl selenocyanates, selenenylthiolates (1950), the aromatic triselenides and selenenyl sulphides (1955)
Discovered new compounds such as thionitrites, thioglycerol, etc.
First to systemize organic chemistry of tellurium
Eponym of Rheinboldt test for oximes
HONOURS
Van’t Hoff Award, Royal Academy of Sciences of Netherlands (1936)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Selecta chimica 16:5-26,1957