Borodin. Aleksandr

Borodin, A. Justus Liebigs Ann. Chem. 1861, 119, 121. Aleksandr Porfirevic Borodin (1833-1887) was born in St Petersburg, the illegitimate son of a prince. He prepared methyl bromide from silver acetate in 1861, but another eighty years elapsed before... 

Other figures from the classical period include H. E. Armstrong, chiefly remembered for his heuristic approach to chemical education, his dyspeptic criticism of other chemists, notably those of the Ingold/Robinson schools, and for his own research on naphthalene derivatives. He is commemorated in a recent short article 45 A chemist who has attracted more interest for his other activities than for his science is the musician Aleksandr Borodin. Several articles in 1987 marked the centenary of his death,46 8 and a longer one examined his chemistry in greater detail, notably his work on aldehydes, and the opposition encountered from Kekule49 An English... 

N. A. Figurovskii and Y. I. Solov ev, Aleksandr Porflr evich Borodin A Chemist s Biography, trans. C. J. Steinberg and G. B. Kauffman, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988. 

It may be interesting to mention that Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) had his first encounter with Italy in October 1860, after the Karlsruhe Congress. Together with his friend Aleksandr Porfir evich Borodin (1833-87), who was also a member of the Russian contingent at the Congress, Mendeleev crossed over the St. 

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