Oleg Matveyevich Nefedov

Oleg Matwejewitsch Nefedow , Russian Олег Матвеевич Нефёдов (born November 25, 1931 in Dmitrow , Moscow region) is a Russian chemist ( organic chemistry ).

Nefedov graduated from Mendeleev University for Chemical Technology (MUCTR) in Moscow in 1954, received his doctorate there in 1957 and was then at the ND Zelinsky Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Since 2009 he has been a professor at Lomonosov University .

He deals with small organic molecules (such as cyclopropanes , cyclopropenes , diazo compounds and their use in organic synthesis) and with carbenes (among other things methods for their stabilization). He developed novel organic synthesis processes, for example for aromatic fluorine compounds. He worked in schools in Russia and supervised more than 70 doctoral and post-doctoral students.

He was involved in the development of the rocket fuel Syntin .

In 1987 he became a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (corresponding member since 1979). From 1988 to 2001 he was its vice-president. In 2014 he received the Demidov Prize , the Mendeleev Gold Medal (1998) and two State Prizes of the USSR (1983, 1990).

From 1999 to 2007 he was on the Executive Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry . He was chairman of the National Committee of Russian Chemists and the Coordinating Council of the Academy of Sciences for Chemistry. He is an honorary member of the Royal Society of Chemistry , a member of the Chinese Chemical Society and the Academies of Science in Georgia and Ukraine.

In 1990/91 he was on the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Web links

• Entry at Lomonosov University (Russian)
• Page at Mendeleev University , where he is an honorary professor (with photo)