RAZUVAEV 310 



Office: USSR Academy of Sciences 



Leninskii Prospekt, 14 

 Moscow, USSR 



RAZUVAEV, GRIGQRII ALEKSEEVICH (Organic Chemist) 



G. A. Razuvaev was born August 24, 1895. In 1925 he gradu- 

 ated from Leningrad University. He worked at the Laboratory 

 of High Pressures of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in 1924- 

 29, and in 1929-34 was the Chief of the Laboratory. He also 

 taught, in 1925-27, at the Military Technical Academy of the 

 Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Razuvaev began teaching 

 at Gorkii University in 1946; in 1956 he became the Director of 

 the Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry at this University. 

 In 1958 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences. For his works in the chemistry of free 

 radicals in solutions, in 1958 he was awarded a Lenin Prize. 



Razuvaev studied free radicals of the phenarsazine series, 

 the displacement of mercury, tin, lead, arsenic, antimony from 

 metallo -organic compounds by hydrogen under high pressure. 

 He also studied chain reactions of free radicals in a liquid medi- 

 um. He investigated photoreactions of series of mercury- 

 organic compounds and discovered the chain reactions in so- 

 lutions of mercuric salts of organic acids which are initiated 

 by free radicals. He worked out a method of identifying radi- 

 cals according to products of their interaction with a solvent. 

 Razuvaev also investigated the mechanism of decomposition of 

 organic peroxides in solutions. Candidate dissertation (1946): 

 "Meriquinoid phenarsazine derivatives." Doctor dissertation 

 (1946): "Free radicals in reactions of metallo -organic com- 

 pounds." 



In February 1960, F^zuvaev visited the United States to at- 

 tend Amexco Group meetings in Washington, D. C 

 Bibliography: 



Radicals in reactions of organic chemistry. Scientific 



Papers of the Gorkii State University, 1947, 90, 13. 



Free radicals in organic reactions. Scientific Papers of the 



Gorkii State University, 1949, 81, 15_. 



and A. V. Savitskii . Reaction of symmetric organomercury 



compounds with iodine. Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 85, 



575(1952). C. A. 47, 9911h (1953). 



and Yu. A. Ol'dekop, L. N. Grobov . New method of synthesis 



of organomercury compounds. Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 



88, 77 (1953). C. A. 48, 142f (1954). 



