Everything about Moses Gomberg totally explained
He was born in
Elizabetgrad, Ukraine. In 1884, the family emigrated to
Chicago to escape the
pogroms following the assassination of czar
Alexander II. In 1886, Moses entered the
University of Michigan, where he obtained his B.Sc in 1890 and his doctorate in 1894 under the supervision of
A. B. Prescott. He remained at the University of Michigan for the rest of his life.
In 1896–1897 he took a year's leave to work as a
postdoctoral researcher to work with
Baeyer and
Thiele in Munich and with
Victor Meyer in
Heidelberg, where he successfully prepared the long-elusive
tetraphenylmethane.
During attempts to prepare the even more
sterically congested hydrocarbon hexaphenylethane he correctly identified the
triphenylmethyl radical, the first
persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of
radical chemistry. The work was later followed up by
Wilhelm Schlenk. Gomberg was a mentor to
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann who also carried on his work and together they discoverd the
Gomberg-Bachmann reaction.
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