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KAZANSKII, BORIS ALEKSANDROVICH (Organic Chemist) 



B. A. Kazanskii was born April 13, 1891. In 1918 he gradu- 

 ated from Moscow University where he was a pupil of N. D. 

 Zelinskii, the leader of Russian organic chemistry in the first 

 part of this century. He was made professor in 1935 at Moscow 

 University. And in 1936 he was in charge of and organized the 

 catalytic synthesis laboratory at the Institute of Organic Chem- 

 istry at the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. In 1954 he became 

 Director of the Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry. Since 

 1946 he has been an Academician. He was awarded, in 1949, a 

 Stalin Prize. 



Kazanskii has specialized in the conversion of hydrocarbons. 

 In particular, he has investigated hydrogen cleavage of five- 

 membered hydrocarbons in the presence of platinum catalyst. 

 This reaction points the way for conversion of these hydro- 

 carbons into branched paraffins. In 1936 Kazanskii studied the 

 aromatization of paraffins in the presence of platinized carbon 

 at 300° to 310°. Later he determined that an intermediate of 

 this reaction is cyclohexane. In 1954 he showed that in the 

 presence of platinum, paraffins can also convert to hydro- 

 carbons of the cyclopentane series. This cyclization goes to 

 the greatest extent for branched paraffins (isooctane). He also 

 studied aromatization in the presence of different oxides as 

 catalysts. He investigated selective hydrogenation of compounds 

 with several double bonds in the presence of platinum, palladi- 

 um, and nickel. Recently he has investigated the conjugation of 



