About Victor Grignard
Francois Auguste Victor Grignard was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds. He also wrote some of his experiments in his laboratory notebooks. Grignard had discovered the synthetic reaction that now bears his name (the Grignard reaction) in 1900. In 1918, Grignard discovered that sodium iodide could be used as a battlefield test for mustard gas. In 1912 he and Paul Sabatier (1854–1941) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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