Charles Friedel
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Charles Friedel (March 12, 1832 – April 20, 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. A native of Strasbourg, France, he was professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne.
Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877, and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.Template:Scientist-stub