Nikolai Zinin

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Nikolai Zinin was a 19th-century Russian organic chemist known for his pioneering work on the reduction of nitro compounds to amines, a key development in synthetic organic chemistry.

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instanceOf Russian scientist
chemist
organic chemist
person
areaOfExpertise aromatic compounds
reduction reactions
centuryOfActivity 19th century
contributedTo industrial chemistry
synthetic dyes
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
era 19th century chemistry
familyName Zinin
fieldOfWork chemistry
organic chemistry
givenName Nikolai
hasNotableConcept Zinin reduction
reduction of nitrobenzene to aniline
inAcademicDiscipline organic chemistry
synthetic chemistry
influenced development of synthetic organic chemistry in the 19th century
development of the aniline dye industry
knownAs Nikolai Nikolaevich Zinin
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
memberOf Russian scientific community
name Nikolai Zinin
nationality Russian
notableAchievement development of Zinin reduction
discovery of a method to reduce nitrobenzene to aniline
notableFor pioneering work in synthetic organic chemistry
reduction of nitro compounds to amines
occupation chemist
university professor
studied amines
nitro compounds
workLocation Kazan
Russian Empire
Saint Petersburg

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Nikolai Zinin ("Nikolai Nikolaevich Zinin")
knownAs
Nikolai Zinin
name
Alfred Nobel
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