Mark Efimowitsch Wolpin

Mark Jefimowitsch Wolpin ( Russian Марк Ефимович Вольпин , born May 23, 1923 in Simferopol , † September 28, 1996 in Moscow ) was a Soviet-Russian chemist.

Life

Mark Jefimowitsch Wolpin was born in Simferopol in 1923 into a family of doctors. The family moved often and came to Moscow in 1938. After serving in the war, he resumed studying at Moscow University in 1945. In 1952 he received his doctorate on the synthesis of acetonitrile at AF Platé .

In 1958 DN Kursanow brought him to the AN Nesmejanow Institute for Organoelement Compounds (INEOS). There he worked on non-benzene aromatics. His work on the tropylium cation also made him known in the West.

In 1964, together with WB Schur, he published a groundbreaking work on the conversion of dinitrogen to ammonia under mild conditions. In 1967 he discovered that many transition metals can activate CO ₂ . For this work he received the State Prize of the USSR in 1982 .

From 1989 to 1996 he was President of the Nesmejanow Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

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IS Akhrem: Mark Efimovich Vol'pin: The path to science . In: Russian Chemical Bulletin . tape 47 , no. 5 , 1998, pp. 735-739 , doi : 10.1007 / BF02498140 .
Obituaries: Mark Efimovitch Vol'pin . In: The Independent . October 25, 1996 ( independent.co.uk ).

Publications

↑ ME Volpin, VB Shur: Nitrogen fixation by Transition Metal Complexes . In: Nature . tape 209 , no. 5029 , March 19, 1966, p. 1236-1236 , doi : 10.1038 / 2091236a0 .
↑ ME Volpin, IS Kolomnikov: Reactions of carbon dioxide with transition metal compounds . In: Pure and Applied Chemistry . tape 33 , no. 4 , 1973, p. 567-581 , doi : 10.1351 / pac197333040567 ( PDF ).

personal data
SURNAME	Wolpin, Mark Efimowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Вольпин, Марк Ефимович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet-Russian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Simferopol
DATE OF DEATH	September 28, 1996
Place of death	Moscow

[1] ME Volpin, VB Shur: Nitrogen fixation by Transition Metal Complexes . In: Nature . tape 209 , no. 5029 , March 19, 1966, p. 1236-1236 , doi : 10.1038 / 2091236a0 .

[2] ME Volpin, IS Kolomnikov: Reactions of carbon dioxide with transition metal compounds . In: Pure and Applied Chemistry . tape 33 , no. 4 , 1973, p. 567-581 , doi : 10.1351 / pac197333040567 ( PDF ).