Resumen

WISNIAK, Jaime. Louis Armand Victor Amedée Cailliot. Educ. quím [online]. 2020, vol.31, n.2, pp.102-113.  Epub 25-Ene-2021. ISSN 0187-893X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fq.l8708404e.2020.2.71062.

Amédée Cailliot (1805-1884), a French physician and pharmacist who isolated for the first time several new acids (among them terephthalic) from turpentine, prepared a series of double salts of mercuric cyanide and potassium (and sodium) bromide and several derivatives of pimaric acid.

Palabras llave : abietin; alkaloids; mercury compounds; opium; pimaric acid; terephthalic acid.