Saytzev, Alexander

Alexander Saytzev was born in Kazan in Russia on 20 June 1841. He studied in Germany at Marburg and Leipzig and with Butlerov at Kazan. In fact both Saytzev and Markovnikov were students of Butlerov, Saytzev became Profe.ssor of Chemistry at the University of Kazan, where he worked on the synthesis of alcohols from esters, ketones and aldehydes using zinc and alky] halides. His student Reformatsky continued his work. Saytzev s brother Mikhayl was also a chemist and ran the chemical works in Kazan. 

Alexander Mikhaylovich Saytzev (Saytzeff) (Kazan 20 June 1841 (O.S.)-2 September 1910) studied with Kolbe in Marburg and Leipzig, and was professor in the University of Kazan. He discovered the synthesis of primary and secondary alcohols from esters, ketones, and aldehydes by the action of zinc and alkyl iodides (see Reformatsky, p. 858). He also discovered aliphatic sulphoxides. His brother Mikhayl Mikhaylovich (b. Kazan, 30 August 1845), at first his assistant and later manager of a chemical works in Kazan, discovered the reduction of acid chlorides to aldehydes by hydrogen gas in presence of palladium. ... 

Alexander M. Saytzev (also spelled Zaitsev or Saytzelf 1841-1910), Russian chemist. Professor August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), University of Berlin. 

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