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German chemist
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Hamburg, Germany
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30 January 2012 (aged 90 years)
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Rolf Appel (25 February 1921 – 30 January 2012) was an inorganic chemist who worked in the area of organophosphorus chemistry
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He received his PhD at age 30. Appel was appointed in 1962 to both the University of Bonn along with the inorganic chemical institute in 1962 from the University of Heidelberg. He was a research assistant in Chemistry at Bonn University in Bonn, when he developed the Appel reaction. For his discovery, Appel received the Liebig Medal. In 1986, he retired from the inorganic institute. He was succeeded by Edgar Niecke.
The Appel reaction is an organic reaction that converts an alcohol into an alkyl chloride using triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrachloride.
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