Abstract
ment in 1835 of Claus, the discoverer of ruthenium, as its first professor of chemistry, succeeded two years later by Zinin, who remained in this position until transferred to Petrograd in 1848. To this pROF. W. P. WYNNE, in his presidential address to the Chemical Society (1924, 125, 997-1013), gives an extremely interesting account of the work of Russian chemists up to 1914, dealing mainly with the Kazan University school of chemistry. The history of this school begins with the appoint-worker we owe the discovery of some of the funda-mental reactions of aromatic organic chemistry, such as the preparation of aniline, a-naphthylamine, m-phenylenediamine from the corresponding nitro-compounds by reduction with ammonium sulphide, as also the production of azoxybenzene, azobenzene and benzidine by modification or development of the above process.
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Some Aspects of Russia's Contribution to Chemistry. Nature 114, 662–663 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114662b0
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