James Crafts

James Mason Crafts was an American chemist, best known for developing the FriedelCrafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876.

James Crafts was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard University in 1858. Although he never received his Ph.D., he studied chemistry in Germany at the Academy of Mines of Freiberg, and served as an assistant to Robert Bunsen at Heidelberg, and then with Wurtz in Paris .

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