Sergey Namyotkin

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Sergey Namyotkin
Born3 July 1876[1]
Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire[1]
Died5 August 1950 (aged 74)[1]
Moscow, Russia[1]
Alma materMoscow State University[1]
ChildrenNikolay Namyotkin[2]
Alexey Lyapunov (stepson)[3]
AwardsUSSR State Prize (1943, 1949)
Order of Lenin (1946)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1940, 1944, 1945)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
ThesisStudy of biological cyclic compounds (1917[1])
Academic advisorsNikolay Zelinsky[2]

Sergey Semyonovich Namyotkin (Russian: Сергей Семёнович Намёткин; 3 July [O.S. 21 June] 1876 – 5 August 1950) was a Russian chemist, a prominent researcher in terpene chemistry and rearrangement of camphenes.[4]

Nametkin Rearrangement[]

The Nametkin rearrangement is the shift of a methyl group in this scheme and called the 'Nametkin' step. The shift of the ring bond is actually a standard Wagner-Meerwein shift. The reaction can in fact be used to make the terpene, using chlorocamphene.

S.S. Nametkin's Memorial Office[]

Academician S.S.Nametkin's memorial office, a department of the A.V.Topchiev institute of Petrochimical Synthesis, established in 1974 on occasion of the centenary of academician Nametkin's birth. S.S.Nametkin an outstanding scientist in the field of organic chemistry and petrochemistry, professor of the Moscow State University. Main direction of activity: study, systematization and use of archives; investigation of the manuscripts of unpublished works by S.S.Nametkin in organic chemistry. Sergey Nametkin's Cabinet Museum

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Намёткин Сергей Семёнович. Moscow State University
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b НАМЁТКИН, Сергей Семенович. Moscow State University
  3. ^ Семья и окружение. computer-museum.ru
  4. ^ L. A Kalashnikova (1990) "Sergei Semenovich Nametkin: 1876-1950" (Materialy k biobibliografii uchenykh SSSR. Seriia khimicheskikh nauk / Akademiia nauk SSSR). Nauka. ISBN 978-5020019546
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