Aleksei Yevgen'evich Chichbibabin led one of the most eventful lives of any Russian chemist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He produced over 250 papers, including seminal papers in pyridine chemistry and triarylmethyl radical chemistry in his career. A student of Markovnikov, he was forced to support himself as a journalist after Markovnikov's ouster from the Chair at Moscow. It took over 18 months after he had submitted his dissertation for the degree of <i>M. Khim.</i> before the degree was awarded. At the beginning of World War 1, Chichibabin helped organize Russian pharmaceutical manufacture, and after the war he continued in a leadership role in the Soviet pharmaceutical industry. In 1930, he left Russia after the death of his daughter, Natasha, in an explosion in a sulfonation plant. He spent the reainder of his life in Paris, where he worked in the laboratory of Tiffeneau, and at the Hôtel Dieu. Chichibabin's contributions to the development of pyridine chemistry (the Chichibabin pyridine synthesis and the Chichibabin amination reaction) will be discussed.

Pioneer of pyridine chemistry: Aleksei Yevgen'evich Chichibabin (1871-1945)

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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