Solomons organic chemistry

(b. Knyaginino, Nizhegorodskaya [now Gorki Region], Russia, 25 December 1837 [or 22 December 1838]; d. Moscow, Russia, 11 February 1904)

chemistry.

Markovnikov was the son of an officer.

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In 1856 he entered Kazan University, where he was attracted to chemistry, which was taught by Butlerov. After graduating from the university in 1860 he became Butlerov’s assistant in teaching inorganic and analytical chemistry.

In his master’s thesis, “Ob izomerii organicheskikh soedineny” (“On the Isomerism of Organic Compounds”; Kazan, 1865); in a number of other works; and especially in his doctoral thesis, “Materialy po voprosu o vzaimnom vlianii atomov v khimicheskikh soedineniakh” (“Materials on the Question of the Mutual Influence of Atoms in Chemical Compounds”; Kazan, 1869), he developed the theory of chemical structure experimentally and theoretically.

From 1865 to 1867 he was in Germany, spending most of his time in the laboratories of Erlenmeyer