Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt
Chemist, Academic
1731 – 1799
Who was Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt?
Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt was a French chemist who synthesised the first organometalic compound.
He obtained a red liquid by the reaction of potassium acetate with arsenic trioxide. This liquid is known as Cadet's fuming liquid and contains the two compounds cacodyl and cacodyl oxide.
Cadet studied at the Collège des Quatre-Nations and became a pharmacist at the Hotel Royal des Invalides in Paris.
Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet became his wife in 1771, at that time her son, fathered by Louis XV, was two years old. The boy was adopted by Cadet as Charles-Louis Cadet.
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