Sergey Nametkin

Sergey Semyonovich Nametkin (Russian: Сергей Семёнович Намёткин; 3 July [O.S. 21 June] 1876 – 5 August 1950) was a Soviet and Russian organic chemist, a prominent researcher in terpene chemistry, the cracking of petrochemicals, and rearrangement of camphenes.[4]

Sergey Nametkin
Image of Nametkin on a 1973 stamp
Born
Sergey Semyonovich Nametkin

(1876-07-03)July 3, 1876[1]
Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire[1]
DiedAugust 5, 1950(1950-08-05) (aged 74)[1]
Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union[1]
Alma materMoscow State University[1]
ChildrenNikolay Namyotkin[2]
Alexey Lyapunov (stepson)[3]
AwardsUSSR State Prize (1943, 1949)
Order of Lenin (1946)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1940, 1944, 1945)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
ThesisStudy of biological cyclic compounds (1917[1])
Academic advisorsNikolay Zelinsky[2]

Biography

Nametkin was born in Kazan and orphaned at an early age. He was educated at a gymnasium in Moscow, after which he earned a living as a private tutor. He studied chemistry and became a lecturer in organic chemistry at the Moscow University but quit in 1911 to oppose the policies of L.A. Kasso. He then studied under N.D. Zelinsky, and received a doctorate in 1917. In 1927 he went to the Moscow Mining Academy and became a director of the Institute of Petroleum in 1948.[5]

Nametkin rearrangement

The Nametkin rearrangement is the shift of a methyl group in this scheme and called the 'Nametkin' step. The shift of the ring bond is actually a standard Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement. The reaction can in fact be used to make the terpene, using chlorocamphene.

A museum of petrochemistry was started in 2011 and named after S.S. Nametkin.

References
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  1. Намёткин Сергей Семёнович. Moscow State University
  2. НАМЁТКИН, Сергей Семенович. Moscow State University
  3. Семья и окружение. computer-museum.ru
  4. L. A Kalashnikova (1990) "Sergei Semenovich Nametkin: 1876-1950" (Materialy k biobibliografii uchenykh SSSR. Seriia khimicheskikh nauk / Akademiia nauk SSSR). Nauka. ISBN 978-5020019546
  5. Lyubimova, T. Yu.; Koshelev, V. N.; Samoilov, R. V. (2006). "The name of this star is science (on the 130th birthday of Sergei Semenovich Nametkin)". Petroleum Chemistry. 46 (6): 450–451. doi:10.1134/S0965544106060132. ISSN 0965-5441. S2CID 95430083.
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