Oleg Nikolayevich Chupachin

Oleg Nikolajewitsch Tschupachin , Russian Олег Николаевич Чупахин , English transcription Oleg Chupakhin, (born June 9, 1934 in Troitsk ) is a Russian chemist ( organic chemistry , pharmaceutical chemistry).

Tschupachin studied chemical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of the Urals (UPI) with the degree in 1957. Tschupachin was a student of the academician I. Ya. Postowski. There he became a senior scientist (habilitation in 1976) and professor, was head of the organic chemistry department and was dean of the faculty for chemistry and technology. He was also at the Organic Chemistry Department of the Ural Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he headed the Fine Organic Synthesis Department from 1989 and was Director of the Institute for Organic Synthesis from 1993 to 2004.

He is known for his work on the nucleophilic aromatic substitution of hydrogen on carbon and its application in organic synthesis. In 1994 he published a monograph on it. His group developed antivirals, antibiotics ( pefloxacin- type, anti-tuberculosis drugs) and other drugs. He works a lot with foreign scientists and pharmaceutical companies and founded a school of organic chemists.

In 1992 he became a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . He received the Demidow Prize in 2007 and the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2011. He received the Medal of Merit of the City of Yekaterinburg , of which he is an honorary citizen, and is an honorary doctor of the Rostov State University.

Fonts (selection)

• with Valery N. Charushin, Henk C. van der Plas: Nucleophilic aromatic substitution of hydrogen, Academic Press 1994

Web links

• Website at the Russ. Academy of Sciences (Russian)
• Biography (russian)