Huang Minlon

Huang Minlon , was a renowned chemist and scientist. Huang is considered as a pioneer and founder of in China.

Life

Huang was born in late Qing Dynasty in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province on 3 July 1898. In 1917, Huang graduated from Yangzhou Middle School. In 1918, Huang graduated from the Zhejiang Provincial College of Medicine .

In 1924, Huang obtained PhD from the University of Berlin, Germany.

In 1925, Huang went back to China and became a professor and later a head of department at Zhejiang Provincial College of Medicine.

During 1934-1940, Huang did research works in Germany and UK.

Huang came back to China in 1940 and became a senior reseacher at Academia Sinica. Huang was also a professor at the National Southwestern Associated University .

During 1945-1952, Huang was a visiting professor in USA . Huang also visited the Merck & Co..

In 1952, Huang came back to China. Huang served as the Head of Department of Chemistry, Academy of Military Medical Sciences of . Huang was also a senior researcher at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the .

Huang is regarded as one of pioneers and founders of morden pharmaceutical industries in China. Huang was a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . Huang was the Vice-president and later the Honorary-president of the Chinese Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences .

Huang published more than 100 papers, in both and .

Huang-Minlon modification

The Huang Modification or Huang-Minlon Modification is named after Huang Minlon. It was the first time that a Chinese name appeared in an organic chemical reaction.

It's a short-cut for the Wolff-Kishner reduction and involves heating the carbonyl compound, potassium hydroxide, and hydrazine hydrate together in ethylene glycol in a . Huang did this development in 1945 when he was in USA.

''Please also see :de:Bild:tosylhydrazon.png, the shemetic indication of Huang Modification''

In many sources, it's also mentioned such method as Wolff-Kishner-Huang Reduction , or in German ''Wolff-Kishner/Huang-Minlon Reduktion'' .

''Please also check the German source: ''

In some sources, people think ''Huang'' and ''Minlon'' are two different persons. It's in fact a mistake, ''Huang'' is his family name and ''Minlon'' is his first name. ''Huang Minlon'' is the Wade-Giles spelling, and ''Huang Minglong'' is its Pinyin romanization of the Chinese characters in his name.

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