Aleksei Chichibabin

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Aleksei Chichibabin
Born	March 17, 1871(1871-03-17) Kuzemino, Russia
Died	August 15, 1945 (aged 74) Paris, France
Alma mater	University of Moscow , University of Saint Petersburg

Alekséy Yevgényevich Chichibábin (Russian: Алексей Евгеньевич Чичибабин; Kuzemino village, current Poltava Oblast, 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1871; Paris 15 August 1945) was a Soviet/Russian chemist. His name is also written Alexei Yevgenievich Chichibabin and Alexei Euguenievich Tchitchibabine.^[1]

His name is associated with the principal development of two important organic chemical reactions. One is a novel terpyridine synthesis, the Chichibabin pyridine synthesis. The others are the Bodroux-Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis and the Chichibabin reaction.

He was also the author of Fundamentals Of Organic Chemistry, which was published in two volumes and one of the principal University-level Chemistry textbooks in the Soviet Union. The text book is dedicated to his daughter Natacha who was killed by an explosion in an chemical production factory.He won the Lenin Prize in 1926.

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Chichibábin studied at the University of Moscow from 1888 till 1892 and received his PhD from the University of Saint Petersburg. He became professor at the Imperial College of Technology in Moscow in 1909 and staied there until 1929. In 1931 he went started working at the College de France, where he worked until his death in 1945.

[edit] References

1. ^ Andraos, J., Named Organic Reactions (A – D)

• H. Bassett, F. G. Mann, John W. Cobb, J. A. V. Butler, F. M. F. Thomas, I. Marszak, N. A. Yajnik, B. D. Shaw, (1946). "Obituary notices: Reginald Graham Durrant, 1859–1945; James Hart-Smith, 1877–1946; Herbert Ingle, 1861–1945; William James Coltart Orr, 1911–1946; William Pollard, 1870–1946; Alexej Euguenievitsch Tchitchibabine, 1871–1945; Kapilram Hardevram Vakil, 1884–1946; Ernest Adam Wagstaff, 1907–1942". J. Chem. Soc.: 757–762. doi:10.1039/JR9460000757.