Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (1833-1887)

Russian chemist and composer, illegitimate son of a Georgian prince. He was professor of chemistry at the Medical-Surgical Academy of Saint Petersburg, where he also promoted medical education for women.

In 1872 he described the self-condensation of acetaldehyde at the same time as Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, and is therefore regarded as a co-discoverer of the aldol reaction. He also studied the decarboxylation of silver salts of carboxylic acids with bromine (today the Hunsdiecker or Borodin–Hunsdiecker reaction).

As a composer, a member of “The Five”, he wrote the opera Prince Igor, which includes the famous Polovtsian Dances.

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