Boris Alexandrovich Kazansky

Kazansky grave in Moscow

Boris Alexandrowitsch Kazanski , Russian Борис Александрович Казанский , (born April 25, 1891 in Odessa , † April 5, 1973 in Moscow ) was a Russian chemist.

Kasanski studied chemistry at Lomonossow University with a degree in 1918. He became a lecturer there in 1930 and, after his habilitation in 1935, professor. In 1945 he became professor for petrochemistry and in 1950 for organic catalysis. In 1936 he founded the laboratory for catalytic synthesis at the Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences and became its director. In 1954 he became director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences. In 1966 he retired.

He dealt with catalysis of hydrocarbons. With Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Selinski he dealt with the catalytic splitting of cyclopentane derivatives. In 1936 he found that aliphatic hydrocarbons with platinized carbon as a catalyst could be converted into aromatics and in 1954 that paraffins with platinum as a catalyst could be converted into five-membered rings. He found catalytic hydrogenations of alkylated aromatics and olefins and developed a method for the analysis of gasoline with Grigori Samuilowitsch Landsberg .

In 1946 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences .

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 230f