Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov (1877 – 1968) was a Russian/Soviet chemist who discovered the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction.

A native of Bilyarsk, Arbuzov studied in the Kazan University under Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev.^[1] He graduated in 1900 and became professor at the same university in 1911. After World War II he was put in charge of the Soviet Institute of Organic Chemistry.

Arbuzov was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1943.

In addition to his scientific research, Arbuzov also wrote A Brief Sktech of the Development of Organic Chemistry in Russian (1948).

[edit] References

1. ^ Lewis, D.E. (1994). "The University of Kazan: Provincial Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry. Part II: Aleksandr Zaitsev and His Students". The Journal of Chemical Education 71: 91 – 95. 

[edit] Further reading

House-museum of Aleksandr Arbuzov in Kazan

• "Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov". Zeitschrift Russian Chemical Bulletin 11 (10): 1625. 1962. doi:10.1007/BF00920247. 
• A M Sladkov (1967). "Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov". Russ. Chem. Rev. 36: 639. doi:10.1070/RC1967v036n09ABEH001678. 

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