Career
Rügheimer was born in Walldorf (near Meiningen) in 1850 as the son of a merchant. He studied at the universities of Leipzig, Würzburg and Tübingen. He died in Kiel in 1917 after a successful academic career.
Rügheimer"s professional career:
Scientific contributions:
Published an article together with Wilhelm Staedel concerning the synthesis of pyrazines by reacting α-haloketones with ammonia.
This procedure is now known as the Staedel-Rugheimer pyrazine synthesis. First synthesis of tropic acid in 1880, together with Albert Ladenburg.
First synthesis of piperine (1882).
