Mikhail Ivanovich Konovalov

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Mikhail Ivanovich Konovalov

Mikhail Ivanovich Konovalov ( Russian Михаил Иванович Коновалов ; born November 13, 1858 in Budichino near Yaroslavl ; † December 25, 1906 in Kiev ) was a Russian chemist.

Life

Konovalov was the son of a farmer and studied chemistry from 1880 at Lomonossow University with a doctorate (candidate) in 1884. He was then an assistant, from 1888 private lecturer, acquired his master’s degree in 1889 and qualified as a professor in 1893 (Russian doctorate). In 1894 he was in Paris to study with Charles Adolphe Wurtz and Charles Friedel . From 1896 he was a professor at the Agricultural Institute in Moscow and at the same time private lecturer at the university. In 1899, at the invitation of Viktor Lwowitsch Kirpitschow , he became professor at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute ("KPI") and was its director from September 1902 to July 1904. He also taught women at high school.

He examined the oil from Baku and showed that the naphthenes it contained were cyclohexanes. From 1888 he turned to an area that became his main field of work, the nitration of alkanes , cycloalkanes and side chains of aromatics . He later extended this to terpenes , oxygenated and halogen compounds.

He developed methods for the reduction of nitro compounds and found a detection reaction for nitroso compounds (Konowalow reaction). He also made contributions to the Friedel-Crafts reaction . Konovalov died in Kiev and was buried in the Lukjanivska cemetery .

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SURNAME Konovalov, Mikhail Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Коновалов, Михаил Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Budichino near Yaroslavl
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1906
Place of death Kiev