He committed suicide in 1919, after two of his sons had been killed in the war.
He committed suicide in 1919, after two of his sons had been killed in the war. With his cousin Otto, he elucidated the structure of rosaniline dyes, and after showing how to distinguish the formulas of the 16 stereoisometric glucoses, he discovered that there are two series of sugars, the D sugars and the L sugars, that are mirror images of each other. In 1875 he had published his discovery of the compound phenylhydrazine, a substance that in 1884 he found reacts with simple sugars to form derivatives called osazones. For 10 points, name this German Chemist who discovered a form of esterification determined the molecular structures of fructose, glucose, and many other sugars and became the pioneer of enzyme chemistry.
He committed suicide in 1919, after two of his sons had been killed in the war.
Emil Hermann {Fischer}