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M. V. Polyakov 
I. Slinyakova 
Description: 
In 1958, the Presidium of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences 
announced the establishment of a Laboratory of Chain Reactions and Polymeri- 
zation within this institute. More recently, about 1960, a Branch was to be 
organized at Khar'kov. 
Members of the Institute have participated in scientific con- 
Terences on physical chemistry at Khar'kov in 1959 and 1960, and at Kiyev 
in 1959. The Rubizhansk Chemical Combine is using catalysts developed by 
the Institute to increase their production of phthalic anhydride by some 
6 to 7 per cent. Members of the Institute have also introduced a new 
vrocess for producing highly dispersed silica with stable hydrophobic 
properties. Additional areas of research concern the catalytic polymeri- 
zation of ethylene, olefin-substituted silicas as polymer fillers, and 
adsorption and ion-exchange processes for silica and alumina gel. Isotopes 
have been used in studies of uranium oxides and peroxides and the production 
of hydrogen peroxides and peracids. 
This institute grants the Candidate's Degree with courses in the 
chemistry of isotopes, catalysis, adsorption, photochemistry, and radiation 
chemistry. 
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Name: Institute of Physical-Organic Chemistry 
(Institut fizikoorganicheskoy khimii) 
Address: Minsk 
Director: B. V. Yerefeyev, Academician (Belorussian S.S.R.) (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, Belorussian S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
I. I. Bardyshev, Corresponding Academician (Belorussian S.S.R.) 
Ya. A. Ol'dekop 
G. A. Razuvayev, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
L. G. Tsykalo 
A. I. Yurzhenko 
Deseription: 
This institute has been doing research on the polymerization of 
cyclohexadiene-1,3 and ethylene (in the presence of metallic catalysts 
