During June, 2015, we had the ooportunity to work in the Butlerov Museum of the Kazan School of Chemistry, and to record several important manuscripts, including Markovnikov's <i>Magistr Khimii</i> and <i>Doktor Khimii</i> dissertations. The Kazan School of Chemistry produced such luminaries as Karl Karlovich Klaus (the discoverer of ruthenium), Nikolai Nikolaevich Zinin (discoverer of the reduction of nitrobenzene to aniline), Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov (the structural theory of organic chemistry, and the first organozinc synthesis), Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zaitsev (Zaitsev's Rule), Vladimir Vasil'evich Markovnikov (Markovnikov's Rule), Yegor Yegorovich Vagner (Wagner; oxidation of alkenes with potassium permanganate), Sergei Nikolaevich Reformatskii (the Reformatskii reaction), and Aleksandr Yerminimgel'dovich Arbuzov (the Arbuzov rearrangement). The museum contains such historical artifacts as Klaus' first samples of ruthenium metal and ruthenium dioxide, and Zinin's first sample of aniline, as well as samples of phenol used by Arbuzov at the Krestovnikov Brothers plant for the manufacture of aspirin during World War I and the Russian revolution. The Butlerov Museum will be described, along with other museums of the university (e.g. the Zavoiskii office-laboratory museum).

Butlerov Museum of the Kazan School of Chemistry

251st National Meeting (2016)

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