FTP, who was this 19th century Italian chemist known for his eponymous reaction?
This scientist got his start as assistant to Rafaelle Piria, and after fleeing to Marseilles to escape a death sentence for his part in the Sicilian revolution he worked in the laboratory of Michel-Eugene Chevreul, where he helped prepare cyanimide. He built a logical system of chemistry based on Avogadro's Law, leading to its acceptance, but is best known for his discovery that using concentrated alcoholic hydroxide to treat benzaldehyde gives equal parts of benzyl alcohol and the salt of benzoic acid. FTP, who was this 19th century Italian chemist known for his eponymous reaction?
This scientist got his start as assistant to Rafaelle Piria, and after fleeing to Marseilles to escape a death sentence for his part in the Sicilian revolution he worked in the laboratory of Michel-Eugene Chevreul, where he helped prepare cyanimide.
Stanislao Cannizzaro