Sergei Semyonovich Namjotkin

Sergei Semyonovich Namjotkin , Russian Серге́й Семёнович Намёткин , English transcription Sergey Semyonovich Namyotkin, also Nametkin, (born July 3, 1876 in Kazan ; † August 5, 1950 in Moscow ) was a Russian chemist .

Namjotkin on a Soviet postage stamp

Namjotkin studied from 1896 first mathematics and then natural science with a focus on chemistry at Lomonossow University , graduating in 1902. He taught there and from 1910 at the Higher Women's School in Moscow (from 1918 the Second Moscow University and today the Moscow State Pedagogical University ), where he became a professor in 1911 after completing his master's degree. In 1917 he received his doctorate in Petrograd and in 1919 became rector of the second university in Moscow and at the same time professor of organic chemistry at Lomonosov University. In 1925 he became deputy scientific director of the State Petroleum Institute and in 1927 professor of petrochemistry at the Mining Academy. From 1931 to 1944 he was head of fragrance synthesis in a large perfume factory and in 1938 head of organic chemistry at Lomonossow University. In 1939 he became director of the Fossil Fuel Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

He dealt mainly with petrochemicals , fragrances, herbicides, growth substances and waxes ( ceresine ). He did research on alicyclic compounds and especially camphor and terpenes . In 1914 he found a method for the production of ketones of the camphor type with nitration after he had investigated nitro compounds of naphthenes in his master's thesis . A camphene rearrangement , a special case of the Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement , is named after him.

He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• Chemistry of Petroleum, 2 volumes, 1931 to 1935 (Russian)

literature

• Article Sergej Semenovic Nametkin, in: Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989