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Nikolai Prilezhaev

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'''Nikolai Alexandrovich Prilezhaev''', , (Born <!--ref>Große Sowjetenzyklopädie.</ref--> in [[Kopossevo]] near [[Nizhny Novgorod]], died May 26 1944 in [[Moscow]]) was a Russian [[Organic chemistry|organic chemist]]. The [[Prilezhaev reaction|Prilezhaev Reaction]]&nbsp;between&nbsp;[[epoxide]]s and [[alkene]]s to form [[peroxyacid]]s is named after him.

Prilezhaev was the son of a clergyman and studied chemistry at the Theological Seminary in Warsaw (graduated in 1895) and then at the [[University of Warsaw]]. After graduating in 1900 he was assistant professor of organic chemistry at the Polytechnic in Warsaw where he belonged to the school of organic chemist [[Georg Wagner]]. After a earning a master's degree in 1912 in [[St. Petersburg]] he became associate professor of organic chemistry at the University of Warsaw. In 1915 he became a professor at the [[Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute|Polytechnic in Kiev]] and in 1924 at the [[University of Minsk]]. There he established the Faculty of Chemistry and between 1931 and 1933 was director of the Institute of Chemistry of the [[Belarusian Academy of Sciences]].

He dealt mostly with oxidation processes, following in the footsteps of chemists such as&nbsp;[[Alexei Nikolaevich Bach]].&nbsp;For example, he studied reactions between unsaturated compounds and peroxides. He discovered his [[name reaction]]&nbsp;in 1908 and continued to study its intermediates and products.

He was a corresponding member of the [[Soviet Academy of Sciences]] (1933) and a member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences (1940). In 1912 he received the Butlerov Prize.

== Bibliography ==
* Winfried R. Pötsch u. a.: ''Priležaev, Nikolaj Aleksandrovič''. In: Lexikon bedeutender Chemiker. 1. Auflage. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-323-00185-0, S. 351.
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