Lev Chugaev (1873-1922)

Russian chemist, professor in Moscow and, from 1908, at the University of Saint Petersburg. In 1899 he described the thermal decomposition of alkyl xanthates into alkenes, the Chugaev elimination, which he applied to the study of terpenes.

He was also one of the founders of coordination chemistry in Russia: in 1905 he introduced dimethylglyoxime as a reagent for nickel, which is still used in analysis.

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