Rudolf Leuckart (chemist)

{{Short description|German chemist (1854–1889)}}

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|name = Rudolf Leuckart

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|caption = Carl Louis Rudolf Alexander Leuckart

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1854|6|23|df=y}}

|birth_place = Gießen, German Confederation

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|nationality = German

|death_date = {{death date and age|1889|7|24|1854|6|23|df=y}}

|death_place = Leipzig, German Empire

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|work_institution = University of Göttingen

|alma_mater = University of Heidelberg,
University of Leipzig

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|known_for = Leuckart reaction

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{{about|the chemist|his father, the zoologist|Rudolf Leuckart}}

Carl Louis Rudolf Alexander Leuckart (23 June 1854 – 24 July 1889) was a German chemist who discovered the Leuckart reaction{{cite book |doi=10.1002/0471264180.or005.07 |chapter=The Leuckart Reaction |title=Organic Reactions |date=2011 |last1=Moore |first1=Maurice L. |pages=301–330 |isbn=978-0-471-26418-7 }} and Leuckart thiophenol reaction.{{Cite journal|last=Stuttgart-Georg Thieme Verlag|date=2012|title=an article dedicated to Rudolf Leuckart for his thiol studies|journal=Synlett|volume=23|issue=13|pages=1893–1896|doi=10.1055/s-0032-1316557}}

He was the son of Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898) a renowned German zoologist. He received his PhD at the University of Leipzig in 1879 and his habilitation at University of Göttingen in 1883, where he also became professor.