It’s Not Just the Germans: Russian Contributions to the Development of Organic Chemistry David E. Lewis Department of Chemistry University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire University of Minnesota-Duluth, April 15, 2005
The Chemists
Nikolai Nikolaevich Zinin (1812-1880) (Nikolay Nikolaeviq Zinin) kandidat Kazan’ 1836 Dr. Chem. St. Petersburg 1841 study abroad (komandirovka) in western Europe 1838-1841 - intended for Zinin to learn technology
- not intended for Zinin to learn “new” chemistry
- year with Liebig in Giessen
- Professor of Chemical Technology 1841-1848
Medical-Surgical Academy, University of St. Petersburg - Professor of Chemistry 1848-1878
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov (Butlerow) (1828-1886) (Aleksandr Mihayloviq Butlerov) kandidat Kazan’ 1849 (entomology) M. Chem. Kazan’ 1851 (under Klaus) Dr. Chem. Moscow, 1854 (under Klaus) study abroad (komandirovka) in western Europe 1857-1858, 1867-1868 - met Erlenmeyer and Kekulé
- spent six months with Wurtz in Paris
- not supposed to be a research trip
Kazan’ University - Professor of Chemical Technology 1851-1858
- Rector twice
University of St. Petersburg - Professor of Chemistry 1869-1880
Aleksandr Porfir’evich Borodin (Borodine) (1834-1887) (Aleksandr Porfir¡eviq Borodin) kandidat St. Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy 1855 M.D. St. Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy 1858 study in western Europe 1859-1862 - travelled with Mendeleev
- delegate to 1860 Karlsruhe conference
St. Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy - Extraordinary Professor of Organic Chemistry 1862-1864
- Professor of Organic Chemistry 1864-1887
Fedor Fedorevich Beil’shtein (Friedrich Konrad Beilstein) (1838-1906) (Fedor Fedoreviq Beyl¡wteyn) 1853 sent to Germany to study - studied with Bunsen & Kekulé at Heidelberg
- studied with Liebig at Munich
- studied with Wöhler at Göttingen
Ph.D. Göttingen 1858 University of Göttingen - Docent 1860
- Extraordinary Professor 1865
- Chair in Chemistry, 1866-1906
Editor, Zeitschrift für Chemie, 1865-1871
Vladimir Vasil’evich Markovnikov (Markownikoff) (1838-1904) (Vladimir Vasil¡eviq Markovnikov) kandidat Kazan’ 1860 (economic science) M. Chem. Kazan’ 1865 Dr. Chem. Kazan’ 1869 study abroad in western Europe 1865-1867 - studied with Kolbe at Leipzig
- studied with Erlenmeyer in Heidelberg
Kazan’ University - docent 1867
- Extraordinary Professor of Chemistry 1868
- Professor of Chemistry 1869-1871
Odessa University - Professor of Chemistry 1871-1873
Moscow University - Professor of Chemistry 1873-1893
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zaitsev (Saytzeff) (1841-1910) (Aleksandr Mihayloviq Zaycev) diplom Kazan’ 1862 (economics) kandidat Kazan’ 1865 Ph.D. Leipzig 1866 M. Chem. Kazan’ 1868 Dr. Chem. Kazan’ 1870 study abroad in western Europe 1862-1865 - studied with Kolbe at Marburg 1862-1864
- studied with Wurtz in Paris 1864-1865
Kazan’ University - unpaid Laboratory Assistant 1865
- Assistant in Agronomy 1866-1868
- Extraordinary Professor of Chemistry 1869-1870
- Professor of Chemistry 1871-1910
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin (1842-1907) (Nikolay Aleksandroviq Menwutkin) kandidat St. Petersburg 1862 M.Chem. St. Petersburg 1866 Dr. Chem. St. Petersburg 1869 study in western Europe 1863-1866 - study under Strecker in Tübingen
- study under Wurtz in Paris
- study under Kolbe in Leipzig
St. Petersburg University - Professor of Chemistry 1869-1902
- Chair in Organic Chemistry 1885-1902
Petersburg Polytechnic Institute - Professor of Chemistry 1902-1907
Egor Egorevich Vagner (Georg Wagner) (1849-1903) (Egor Egoreviq Vagner) kandidat Kazan’ 1874 M. Chem. St. Petersburg 1885 Dr. Chem. Warsaw 1888 St. Petersburg University - Assistant under Menshutkin 1876-1882
Novo-Aleksandriya Institute of Agrigulture and Forestry - Professor of Chemistry 1882-1886
Warsaw University - Professor of Organic Chemistry 1886-1892
Warsaw Polytechnic Institute - Professor of Organic Chemistry 1889-1903
- Dean of the Chemistry School 1889-1903
Sergei Nikolaevich Reformatskii (Reformatsky) (1860-1934) (Sergey Nikolaeviq Reformatskiy) graduated Kostroma Spiritual Seminary 1878 kandidat Kazan’ 1882 M. Chem. Kazan’ 1889 Dr. Chem. Warsaw 1890 study abroad in western Europe 1889-1890 - studied with Viktor Meyer at Heidelberg and Göttingen
- studied with Wilhelm Ostwald at Leipzig
Kazan’ University - curator of museum 1882-1889
Kiev University - Professor of Chemistry 1891-1934
- Corresponding Member 1928
Aleksei Evgrafovich Favorskii (Favorsky) (1860-1945) (Aleksey Evgrafoviq Favorskiy) kandidat St. Petersburg 1883 M. Chem. St. Petersburg 1890 Dr. Chem. St. Petersburg 1895 St. Petersburg Technical Institute - Professor of Chemistry 1896-1907
St. Petersburg University - Professor of Chemistry 1908-1929
USSR Academy of Sciences - Associate Member 1921
- Academician 1929
Institute of Organic Chemistry, USSR Academy of Science, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Vyacheslav Evgen’evich Tishchenko (1861-1941) (Våqeslav Evgen¡eviq Tixenko) M. Chem. St. Petersburg 1899 Dr. Chem. St. Petersburg 1906 travel abroad to report on technology - Chicago World’s Fair 1893
- Paris Exposition 1900
St. Petersburg University
Nikolai Dmitr’evich Zelinskii (Zelinsky) (1861-1853) (Nikolay Dmitrieviq Zelinskiy) kandidat Odessa 1884 M.Chem. Odessa 1889 Dr. Chem. Odessa 1891 study in western Europe 1885-1887 - Wislicenus at Leipzig
- Viktor Meyer at Göttingen
Moscow University - Professor of Chemistry 1893-1953
St. Petersburg Technical Institute - Professor of Chemistry 1911-1917
USSR Academy of Sciences - Corresponding Member 1926
- Academician 1929
- Head, N.D. Zelinskii Institute 1934
Nikolai Yakovlevich Demyanov (Demjanov) (1861-1938) (Nikolay Åkovleviq Dem¡ånov) kandidat Moscow 1886 M. Chem. Moscow 1895 Dr. Chem. Moscow 1899 Petrine Forestry and Agricultural Academy, Moscow - Assistant in Chemistry 1887-1893
- Adjunct Professor of Chemistry 1894-1898
- Professor of Chemistry 1898-1938
Nikolai Matveyevich Kizhner (Kishner) (1867-1935) (Nikolay Matveeviq Kijner) kandidat Moscow 1890 M. Chem. St. Petersburg 1895 Dr. Chem. Moscow 1900 Tomsk Technological Institute - Professor of Chemistry 1901-1913
Shanyavskii Popular University, Moscow - Professor of Chemistry 1914-1917
Aniline Trust Research Institute Corresponding Member, USSR Academy of Sciences 1929-1934
Aleksei Evgen’evich Chichibabin (Alexis Tchitchibabine) (1871-1945) (Aleksey Evgen¡eviq Qiqibabin) kandidat Moscow 1892 M. Chem. Moscow 1904 Dr. Chem. St. Petersburg 1912 Moscow University University of Warsaw - Adjunct Professor 1905-1906
Moscow Higher Technical School - Director 1908-1929
- Dean, Chemistry Faculty (intermittent) 1909-1929
Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev (Tschugaeff) (1873-1922) (Lev Aleksandroviq Qugaev) M.Chem. Moscow 1903 Dr. Chem. Moscow 1906 Moscow University - Adjunct in Bacteriological Institute 1904-1908
St. Petersburg University - Professor of Inorganic Chemistry 1908-1922
Sergei Semenovich Nametkin (1876-1950) (Sergey Semenoviq Nametkin) M. Chem. Moscow 1911 Dr. Chem. Moscow 1916 Moscow University - Extraordinary Professor 1910-1911, 1938-1950
Moscow University Higher Women’s Courses - (Second Moscow University 1917)
- Ordinary Professor 1911-1924
- Rector 1919-1924
Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology Moscow Mining Academy - (later Moscow Petroleum Institute)
- Professor of organic chemistry and petrochemistry 1927-1950
- Rector 1919-1924
Aleksandr Erminingel’dovich Arbuzov (Arbusow) (1877-1968) (Aleksandr Erminingel¡doviq Arbuzov) diplom Kazan’ 1900 M. Chem. Kazan’ 1905 Dr. Chem. Warsaw 1914 Novo-Aleksandriya Institute of Agriculture and Forestry - Assistant in Chemistry 1901-1905
- Professor of Chemistry 1906-1911
Kazan’ University - Professor of Chemistry 1911-1930
- Deputy Dean, Physics-Mathematics Faculty 1922-1930
Kazan’ Technical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences - Professor and Director 1930-1944
Ivan Nikolaevich Nazarov (1906-1957) (Ivan Nikolaeviq Nazarov) kandidat Timiryazev Agricultural Academy 1931 Dr. Chem. St. Petersburg (Leningrad) 1934 Institute of Organic Chemistry, USSR Academy of Science Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemicals (Moscow) USSR Academy of Sciences - Corresponding Member 1946
- Member 1953
The Chemistry
Major Contributions Zinin — the first Russian organic chemistry of note; “father of Russian organic chemistry” synthesis using organozinc reagents carbocation chemistry chemistry of amines and other amino compounds chemistry involving enols and enolates textbooks of organic chemistry
The “Father” of Russian Organic Chemistry
Structural theory of organic chemistry
Empirical rules that are still taught
Organozinc chemistry
Organozinc chemistry
Redox chemistry A.M. Butlerov - doctoral dissertation (1854) contains first report of osmium tetroxide oxidation of an alkene
A.P. Borodin - Z. Chem. 1861, 4, 5; 1869, 12, 342.
- Ann. Chem. Pharm. 1869, 121, 119
Redox chemistry A.M. Zaitsev - Ann. Chem. Pharm. 1866, 139, 354; 1867, 144, 148.
- Z. Chem., N.F. 1869, 5, 551; 1870, 6, 105
- J. prakt. Chem., N.F. 1871, 3, 76, 427.
E.E. Vagner (G. Wagner) - Deut. chem. Ges. 1888, 21, 1230, 3343, 3347, 3356
Redox chemistry N.M. Kizhner (N. Kishner) - Zh. Russ. Fiz.-Khim. Obshch. 1911, 43, 582.
N.D. Zelinskii (N.D. Zelinsky) - Ber. Deut. chem. Ges. 1887, 20, 2026.
Redox chemistry V.E. Tishchenko - Zh. Russ. Fiz.-Khim. Obshch. 1906, 38, 355,482, 540, 547
- Chem. Zentr. 1906, II, 1309, 1552, 1555,1556. (c.f. Claisen, L. Ber. Deut. chem. Ges. 1887, 20, 646.)
A.E. Arbuzov (A.E. Arbusow) - Zh. Russ. Fiz.-Khim. Obshch. 1910, 42, 395, 549.
- Chem. Zentr. 1910, 11, 453
Carbocation chemistry E.E. Vagner (G. Wagner) - Ber. Deut. chem. Ges. 1899, 32, 2302; 1900, 33, 2121.
N. Ya. Demyanov (Demjanov) - Zh. Russ. Fiz.-Khim. Obshch. 1903, 35, 26; 1904, 36, 186.
- Chem. Zentr. 1903, I, 828; 1904, I, 1214.
- Ber. Deut. chem. Ges. 1907, 40, 4393, 4961; 1908, 41, 43.
Carbocation chemistry S.S. Nametkin - Liebigs Ann. Chem. 1923, 432, 207.
I.N. Nazarov - Zh. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Otd. Khim. Nauk 1942, 200.
- prototypical example of a conrotatory electrocyclic reaction
Enols and enolates: C—C bond formation N.N. Zinin - Ann. Chem. Pharm. 1840, 34, 186.
A.P. Borodin (Borodine)
- Ber. Deut. chem. Ges. 1873, 6, 973.
Other C—C bond-forming reactions A.E. Chichibabin (Chichibabine)
- Ber. Deut. chem. Ges. 1904, 37, 186, 850.
A.E. Favorskii (Favorsky) - Zh. Russ. Fiz.-Khim. Obshch. 1900, 32, 652; 1905, 37, 643.
- Chem. Zentr. 1905, II, 1018.
Amine and imine chemistry A.E. Chichibabin
- Zh. Russ. Fiz.-Khim. Obshch. 1914, 46, 1216.
- Zh. Russ. Fiz.-Khim. Obshch. 1906, 37, 1229.
- J. prakt. Chem. 1924, 107, 122.
N.D. Zelinskii
- Zh. Russ. Fiz-Khim. Obshch. 1906, 38, 722; 1908, 40, 790.
Base-promoted rearrangements A.E. Favorskii (Favorsky) - Zh. Russ. Fiz.-Khim. Obshch. 1887, 19, 414
- Ber. Deut. chem. Ges. 1887, 20, 781.
- J. prakt. Chem. 1913, 88, 658.
Other reactions F.F. Beil’shtein (F.K. Beilstein) - halogenation of alkylbenzenes
- Ann. Chem. Pharm. 1866, 139, 331.
A.P. Borodin (Borodine) - first organic fluorine compound
- Compt. rend. 1862, 55, 552.
- Z. Chem. 1862, 5, 556.
- Nuov. Cim. 1862, 15, 305.
- Ann. Chem. Pharm. 1863, 126, 58..
Other reactions N.A. Menshutkin - reaction rate studies in alcohols and amines
- Z. phys. Chem. 1890, 5, 589; 1891, 6, 41.
L.A. Chugaev (Tschugaeff) - Ber. Deut. chem. Ges. 1899, 32, 3332.
Some textbooks, etc. A.M. Butlerov - Introduction to the Study of Organic Chemistry (Kazan’, 1861); Lehrbuch der organischen Chemie zur Einführung in das specielle Studien derselben (Leipzig, 1867)
F.F. Beil’shtein (F.K. Beilstein) - Beilsteins Handbuch der organischen Chemie (1881)
- second edition 1886
- third edition 1893
S.N. Reformatskii - A Beginner’s Course of Organic Chemistry (Kiev, 1891)
Some textbooks, etc. N. Ya. Demyanov - Organic Chemistry (3rd. edition: Moscow, 1944)
A.E. Chichibabin - Organic Chemistry (Moscow, 1917; went through many editions)
Borodin: Late and Overdue Recognitions Tony Award for Musical of the Year - Kismet, 1954
- Alexander Borodin, composer
- Luther Davis, Robert Wright: librettists
- George Forrest, lyricist
- Charles Lederer, lyricist/producer
Named reaction - Borodin-Hunsdiecker reaction
- Published by Borodin in 1861
- Patented by Heinz and Cläre Hunsdiecker in 1939 (published in Berichte 1942).
- Borodin’s name slowly attached to it after the mid 1970’s
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