KISUN'KO 166 



i Termichesk, Obrabotka Metal. #6, 21-6 (1960). C A. 54, 

 18265f (1960). 

 Office: USSR Academy of Sciences 



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KISUN'KO, GRIGORII VASILEVICH (Radio Technologist) 



G. V. Kisun'ko was born in 1918. In 1938 he graduated from 

 the Voroshilovgradskii University. From 1938-41, he was an 

 instructor at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. He has been 

 a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 

 1944. He was elected, in 1958, a Corresponding Member of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 

 Office: USSR Academy of Sciences 



Leninskii Prospekt, 14 



Moscow, USSR 



KNUNYANTS, IVAN LYUDVIGQVICH (Organic Chemist) 



I. L. Knunyants was born June 4, 1906. In 19^8 he graduated 

 from Moscow Technological College and continued work there. 

 He began, in 1931, working at the Institute of Organic Chemistry 

 of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. In 1941, he became a 

 Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 

 1946 he was a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy 

 of Sciences until 1953 when he was made an Academician. 

 Three times, 1943, 1948, 1950, he won a Stalin Prize. 



Knunyants synthesized pyridine analogs of triphenylmethane 

 and carbocyanine dyes and studied the relation of their color 

 and structure. He produced a series of new transformations of 

 aliphatic oxides, which led to the synthesis of gamma- 

 acetopropyl alcohol; this synthesis is used in production of 

 vitamin Bi and in anti-malaria substance. Also he studied 

 methods of introducing fluorine into organic compounds, such 

 as the reaction of aliphatic oxides with hydrogen fluoride. At 

 present he is concerned with reactions of fluoroolefins. Many 

 of his inventions, such as photosensitizers and caprone, are 

 used in Soviet industry. 

 Bibliography: 



and O. V. Kild'sheva . Methods of introducing fluorine in 

 organic compounds. Uspekhi Khim., 1946, 15, #6. 



