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Carbohydrate— phosphorous exchange and synthesis of amino 

 acids in the roots of a pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo). Fiziol. 

 Rastenni, 1954, #1. 

 Office: L. A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology of 



USSR Academy of Sciences 

 Leninskii Prospekt, 33 

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KURSANOV, DMITRII NIKQLAEVICH (Organic Chemist) 



D. N. Kursanov was born April 3, 1899. He graduated in 

 1924 from Moscow University. From 1930 to 1947 he worked 

 at the Moscow Textile Institute and in 1936 was made professor. 

 Beginning in 1943, he has worked at the Institute of Organic 

 Chemistry and in 1953 at the Institute of Scientific Information 

 of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. In 1953 he was elected a 

 Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



The main emphasis of Kursanov' s work lies in studying re- 

 action mechanisms of organic substances, and in particular, 

 alcohol-dehydration, the reactions catalyzed by aluminum 

 chloride, and the splitting and exchange of quaternary ammoni- 

 um compounds. He discovered a number of new reactions of 

 practical importance, in the formation of hydrophobic deriva- 

 tives of cellulose and reactions in chemical dyeing of cellulose. 

 Kursanov has also investigated with isotopes the intramolecular 

 mutual influence of atoms in organic compounds. 

 Bibliography: 



and S. S. Namyotkin. Experiment in utilizing the xanthogene 



method for dehydrating benzyl alcohol. Journal of the 



Russian Physico-Chemical Society, 1926, 57, #6-9 



Benzylidene-Cyclohexane. Zhur. Obshchei Khim., 1931, 1, 



#7. 



and R. R. Zel'vin. New type of condensation reaction under 



the influence of aluminum chloride. Doklady Akad. Nauk 



S.S.S.R., 1942, 36, #1. 



and others. Reactions of exchange and splitting in the group 



of quaternary ammonium salts. Izvest. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 



Otdel. Khim. Nauk, 1948, #2. 



and V". V. Voevodskii. New data on reactions of hydrogen 



exchange of free organic radicals and ions. Uspekhi Khim., 



1954, 23, #6. 



