Nikolay Zinin
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Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Зи́нин; 25 August 1812 – 18 February 1880) was a Russian organic chemist.
Life
He studied at the
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and first president of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society (1868–1877).[3]
In St. Petersburg, professor Zinin was a private teacher of chemistry to the young Alfred Nobel.
Work
He is known for the so-called Zinin reaction or Zinin reduction,[4] in which nitro aromates like nitrobenzene are converted to amines by reduction with ammonium sulfides.[5][6] In 1842 Zinin played an important role in identifying aniline.
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