Nikolai Nikolayevich Sinin

Nikolai Nikolayevich Sinin

Nikolai Nikolayevich Sinin ( Russian: Николай Николаевич Зинин , scientific transliteration Nikolaj Nikolayevich Zinin ; * August 13th ^July / August 25th  1812 ^greg. In Şuşa , Nagorno-Karabakh ; † February 6th ^July / February 18,  1880 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian organic chemist .

Life

Sinin graduated from Kazan State University , where he graduated in mathematics . From 1835 he held lectures in chemistry . To expand his knowledge, he traveled through Europe between 1838 and 1841. He studied with Justus von Liebig at the University of Giessen . There he completed his research in the field of benzoin addition , which Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler had discovered a few years earlier while investigating bitter almond oil. On his return he presented his results at the University of Saint Petersburg and received his doctorate. In the same year he received a professorship in chemistry at the University of Kazan. In 1842 he played an important role in the precise determination of the aniline , which he called benzidam . In 1847 he returned to Saint Petersburg and was accepted into the local Academy of Sciences . During this time, the young Alfred Nobel was one of his students. Sinin sponsored Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin .

In 1873 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

The Zinin Reduction is named after him.

literature

• N. Zinin (1839): Contributions to the knowledge of some compounds from the benzoyl series. In: Annals of Pharmacy. 31 (3): 329-332.
• N. Zinin (1840): About some decomposition products of bitter almond oil. In: Annals of Pharmacy. 34 (2): 186-192
• N. Zinin (1842): Description of some new organic bases, represented by the action of hydrogen sulfide on compounds of hydrocarbons with subnitric acid. In: Journal for Practical Chemistry. 27 (1): 140-153.
• Richard Willstätter, Heinrich Kubli (1908): About the reduction of nitro compounds using the Zinin method. In: Reports of the German Chemical Society. 41 (2): 1936-1940.

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter Z. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 17, 2020 (French).