# Julius Bredt

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**Julius Bredt** (29 March 1855 – 21 September 1937) was a German organic chemist. He was the first to determine, in 1893, the correct structure of [camphor](/source/Camphor). Bredt also proposed in 1924 that a double bond cannot be placed at the bridgehead of a bridged ring system, a statement now known as [Bredt's rule](/source/Bredt's_rule).[1] The rule however, has been contradicted since, by a publication 100 years later.[2]

## Awards

There is a Julius Bredt lecture in his remembrance at the [RWTH Aachen University](/source/RWTH_Aachen_University).[3]

## Further reading

- [George B. Kauffman](/source/George_B._Kauffman) (1983). "Julius Bredt and the structure of camphor: on the threshold of modern stereochemistry". *Journal of Chemical Education*. **60** (4): 341–342. [Bibcode:1983JChEd..60..341K](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983JChEd..60..341K). [doi:10.1021/ed060p341](https://doi.org/10.1021/ed060p341)

## References

1. Conroy, Gemma (2024). ["Chemists make 'impossible' molecules that break 100-year-old bonding rule"](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03538-4). *Nature*. [doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03538-4](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03538-4). [PMID 39487206](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39487206)

1. McDermott, L. et al. Science 386, eadq3519 (2024)

1. ["Julius-Bredt-Vorlesung an der RWTH Aachen"](https://www.ioc.rwth-aachen.de/Bredt.html) (in German). Institut für Organische Chemie. Retrieved January 1, 2019.

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