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836:"Sur une Nouvelle Classe de Radicaux Organiques"
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435:residues combined to form more complex
802:[About trimethylacetic acid].
518:established its constitution in 1871.
993:"Ueber das Aethyl- und Diäthylbenzol"
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65:Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
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525:(11th ed., 1887) and wrote an
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539:2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid
1067:"Synthese des α-Naphtols"
1024:"Wurtz-Fittig Reaction".
926:. In Hiemstra, H. (ed.).
549:Pinacol coupling reaction
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466:His investigations on
314:University of TĂĽbingen
210:Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig
36:Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig
461:Wurtz-Fittig reaction
425:Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
377:pinacol rearrangement
250:Wurtz–Fittig reaction
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665:. pp. 158–159.
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244:. He discovered the
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493:α-naphthol
453:homologues
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381:1,2-diols
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