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Schotten-Baumann (iou)



Schotten-Baumann noun. L19.
[Carl Ludwig Schotten (1853-1910) and Eugen Baumann (1846-96), German chemists.]
Organic Chemistry. Used attrib. (esp. in Schotten-Baumann method, Schotten-Baumann reaction), with ref. to a type of reaction in which a primary or secondary amine or alcohol reacts with an acid halide in basic aqueous solution to form an amide or ester.