Alexander Mikhailovich Saizew

Alexander Mikhailovich Zaitsev , also Saytzev , Saytzeff or Saitzeff ( Russian Александр Михайлович Зайцев ., Scientific transliteration Aleksandr Michajlovič Zajcev * June 20 ^{. Jul} / 2. July 1841 ^greg. In Kazan ; † August 19 ^jul. / 1. September 1910 ^greg. ibid) was a Russian chemist .

biography

Saizew was originally supposed to take over his father's tea business, but had to study economics to do so. His studies at Kazan University included two years of chemistry taught by Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov . Saizew received his diploma in 1862 and turned to Western Europe, where between 1865 and 1870 he worked with Hermann Kolbe and Charles Adolphe Wurtz , among others .

In 1865, thanks to Kolbe's influence, he was able to submit his dissertation on sulfoxides and trialkyl sulfonium salts to the University of Leipzig . In 1870 he submitted his habilitation thesis on new methods for converting fatty acids into alcohols and in 1871 was appointed to the chair of organic chemistry at the University of Kazan.

With his synthesis of diethylcarbinol from iodoethylene using zinc in 1873 , Saizew did an essential preparatory work for the Grüner reaction developed by Grüner and Barbie . After the publication of the Saizew rule in 1875 , the main area of work also included the synthesis of alcohols from organozinc compounds. This was the only way to synthesize alcohols until the Grignard reaction in 1901 .

Saizew was president of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society and since 1885 a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.

Web links

Article by Alexander Saizew in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)

Individual evidence

^ DE Lewis: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zaitsev: Markovnikov's Conservative Contemporary. In: Bull. Hist. Chem. 1995 , 17/18 , 21-30.
^ (A) DE Lewis: The University of Kazan: Provincial Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry. Part I: Nikolai Zinin and the Butlerov School. In: J. Chem. Educ. 1994 , 71 , 39-42. (b) DE Lewis: The University of Kazan: Provincial Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry. Part II: Aleksandr Zaitsev and His Students. In: J. Chem. Educ. 1994 , 71 , 91-95.

personal data
SURNAME	Saizew, Alexander Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Saytsev, Alexander Mikhailovich; Saytzeff, Alexander Mikhailovich; Zaitsev, Alexander Mikhailovich; Saytzev; Saitzeff; За́йцев, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kazan
DATE OF DEATH	September 1, 1910
Place of death	Kazan

[1] DE Lewis: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zaitsev: Markovnikov's Conservative Contemporary. In: Bull. Hist. Chem. 1995 , 17/18 , 21-30.

[2] (A) DE Lewis: The University of Kazan: Provincial Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry. Part I: Nikolai Zinin and the Butlerov School. In: J. Chem. Educ. 1994 , 71 , 39-42. (b) DE Lewis: The University of Kazan: Provincial Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry. Part II: Aleksandr Zaitsev and His Students. In: J. Chem. Educ. 1994 , 71 , 91-95.