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- ↑ Life data according to John Andraos Named Organic Reactions E-H, pdf
- ↑ The dissertation was published in Darmstadt: C. F. Winter Buchdr., 1889
- ↑ Chem. Ber., volume 38, 1905, pages 880-892
- ↑ H. T. Clarke, H. B. Gillespie, S. Weisshaus, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Band 55, 1933, 4571–4587
- ↑ Enciclopedia Treccani, Italian (where the Eschweiler-Clarke reaction is referred to as the Eschweiler method)
- ↑ In the entry by Schwarz in the German Apotheker Biography, it is only referred to as the Eschweiler Reaction. It is described there as the formation of tertiary amines (trimethylamine) from formaldehyde and ammonium salts.