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Alexander Zaytsev (chemist)

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173:(1838–1904). Zaytsev submitted his Dr. Chem. dissertation in 1870, and was awarded the degree over the indirect objections of Markovnikov (as second examiner of the dissertation, Markovnikov had written an overtly positive assessment that was meant to be read between the lines). The same year, he was promoted to Ordinary Professor of Chemistry. This may have been one of the final straws for Markovnikov, who left Kazan University in 1871 for Odessa. Zaytsev continued at Kazan University until his death in 1910. 31: 164:
In order to teach, he required either a master's degree from a Russian university, or a Ph.D. from a foreign university, so he wrote up his work on the sulfoxides and submitted it to the University of Leipzig where (probably thanks to Kolbe's influence) he was awarded the Ph.D. in 1866. With Zaytsev
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degree (today approximately equivalent to the doctor of philosophy degree, but then closer to the thesis for the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in British universities), and then spend two or three years in study abroad (a
85:. He was the son of a tea and sugar merchant, who had decided that his son should follow him into the mercantile trades. However, at the urging of his maternal uncle, Zaytsev was allowed to enroll at 100:
Early on, Zaytsev began working with Butlerov, who clearly saw in him an excellent laboratory chemist, and whose later actions showed that he felt that Zaytsev was an asset to Russian
209:(1860–1934) extended this reaction to a general synthesis of alcohols using alkylzinc iodides. This synthesis was the best way to make alcohols until the advent of the 152:, and Zaytsev, now out of money, returned to Russia. Upon his return, Zaytsev again joined Butlerov as an unpaid assistant. During this time, he wrote a successful 412:
of Zaytsev's seminal 1875 article that he wrote in German. English title: 'The order of addition and of elimination of hydrogen and iodine in organic compounds'.
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was reported in 1875, and appeared just as his nemesis, Markovnikov, (who had made a prediction which the rule contradicts) was taking the Chair at
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in 1901. Reformatskii's work, which used the zinc compounds from alpha-bromoesters, led to the discovery of a synthetic reaction (the
148:, where he worked for a year in the laboratories of Wurtz before returning to Marburg in 1865. At this time, Kolbe accepted a call to 425: 86: 284:"The University of Kazan: Provincial Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry. Part I: Nikolai Zinin and the Butlerov School." 315:"The University of Kazan: Provincial Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry. Part II: Aleksandr Zaitsev and His Students." 405: 363: 170: 314: 283: 206: 94: 258: 226: 120:
in Paris. This went directly against the accepted norms of the day, which had the student complete the
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in 1862, and immediately went to western Europe to further his chemical studies, studying with
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now holding the Ph.D., Butlerov was able to secure his appointment as an assistant in
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Lewis, David E. (2012). "Section 4.4.3 Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zaitsev".
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During his studies with Kolbe between 1862 and 1864, Zaytsev discovered
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His research at Kazan was primarily concerned with the development of
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to study economics. At this time, Russia was experimenting with the
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as a salaried laboratory assistant studying for the doctorate.
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Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev

Russian
organic compounds
Zaytsev's rule
elimination reaction
Kazan
University of Kazan
cameral system
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov
organic chemistry
Hermann Kolbe
Marburg
Charles Adolphe Wurtz
Russia
sulfoxides
sulfonium
Paris
Leipzig
agronomy
Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov
organozinc chemistry
alcohols
dimethylzinc
phosgene
Egor Egorevich Vagner
Sergei Nikolaevich Reformatskii
Grignard reaction
Reformatskii reaction
Zaitsev's Rule

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