Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut

Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut (born in 1797 in Lille - died in 1881^[1]) was a French chemist.

Mutarotation was discovered by Dubrunfaut in 1846, when he noticed that the specific rotation of aqueous sugar solution changes with time.^[2][3][4] The organic fructose molecule was first discovered by Dubrunfaut in 1847.^[5]

Works

• Art de fabriquer le sucre de betteraves, contenant 1. la description des meilleures méthodes usitées pour la culture et la conservation de cette racine^[6]
• Traité complet de l'art de la distillation Paris: Bachelier, 1824

References

1. ^ A history of chemistry, Volume 4, James Riddick Partington, MacMillan, 1961, p.731.
2. ^ Horton, D (2008). The Development of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biology. pp. 1. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-054816-6.00001-X. 
3. ^ Fletcher, Hewitt G. (1940). "Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut—An early sugar chemist". Journal of Chemical Education 17 (4): 153. doi:10.1021/ed017p153. 
4. ^ Battley, E (1998). "Augustin Pierre Dubrunfaut". Thermochimica Acta 309: 1. doi:10.1016/S0040-6031(97)83271-6. 
5. ^ Fruton, J.S. Molecules of Life 1972, Wiley-Interscience
6. ^ openlibrary.org

Persondata
Name	Dubrunfaut, Augustin-Pierre
Alternative names
Short description	Chemist
Date of birth	1797
Place of birth	Lille, France
Date of death	1881
Place of death