Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev

Alexander Mikhailovich Zaitsev, also Saytzev, Saytzeff or Saitzeff (Russian Александр Михайлович Зайцев, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Michajlovič Zajcev; * 20 Junijul / July 2 1841greg in Kazan, .. † 19 Augustjul / September 1 1910greg ibid. . ) was a Russian chemist.

Biography

Originally Zaitsev should take over the tea business of his father, but had to for this study economics.

His studies at the University of Kazan also included two years of chemistry, who taught Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov. Zaitsev received his diploma in 1862 and turned to Western Europe, where he was able to work 1865-1870, among others, Hermann Kolbe and Charles Adolphe Wurtz.

In 1865, he was able to submit his thesis on sulfoxides and trialkylsulfonium at the University of Leipzig, thanks to the influence of Kolbe. In 1870 he submitted his habilitation thesis in front of new methods for the conversion of fatty acids to alcohols and in 1871 was appointed to the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Kazan.

With its 1873 Synthesis of Diethylcarbinol made ​​by zinc from Iodethylen Zaitsev made ​​a substantial preliminary work for the developed by Green and Green Barbie reaction. To the main area of ​​work included the publication of the Zaitsev rule in 1875, the synthesis of alcohols from organozinc compounds. This was the only possibility for the synthesis of alcohols to the Grignard reaction in 1901.

Zaitsev was President of the Russian Physico- Chemical Society since 1885 and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.