Mikhail Grigoryevich Kutscherow

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Mikhail Grigoryevich Kutscherow , Russian Михаил Григорьевич Кучеров , English transcription Kucerov, (born May 22, 1850 near Lubny in the Poltava Governorate ; † June 13, 1911 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian chemist.

Kutscherow was the son of a landowner and from 1868 studied chemistry at the Agricultural Institute in Saint Petersburg. After graduating in 1871, he continued his studies in Germany and after returning in 1880 he was a lecture assistant, 1891 lecturer and 1902 associate professor at the Forest Institute in Saint Petersburg (emerged from the Agricultural Institute). In 1910 he retired. From 1890 he was also on the technical committee of the Ministry of Finance and from 1898 headed its chemical laboratory.

According to him, which is Kutscherowsche acetylene -Hydratisierung named, he found the 1881st In it, acetylene is hydrated to acetaldehyde with a catalyst in the aqueous phase . He initially used mercury bromide as the catalyst, but soon afterwards found other suitable catalysts and extended the process to the hydration of other alkynes and also to alkenes . Since acetylene chemistry was still underdeveloped in his time, his process only gained technical importance later (a first plant ran in Canada in 1914, after it was patented by others in 1910).

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SURNAME Kutscherow, Mikhail Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кучеров, Михаил Григорьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Poltava Governorate
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1911
Place of death St. Petersburg