Background
Illinois'INSKJY, Mikhail was born on November 13, 1856 in Saint St. Petersburg.
Organic chemist and chemical engineer
Illinois'INSKJY, Mikhail was born on November 13, 1856 in Saint St. Petersburg.
1875 entered Saint St. Petersburg Technol Institute but was soon expelled for involvement in student riots. 1882 graduate Berlin Higher Technical School.
After graduate assistant to K. Liebermann, Berlin Higher Technical School. 1885, together with G. Knorre, pioneered the use of organic reagents in analytical chemistry by suggesting l-nitroso-2-naphthol as a reagent for cobalt and trivalent iron. Also hypothesized that nitrosonaphthols have a hydrogen bond.
1887 and 1888 read papers to the German Chemistry Social and the Russian Physics and Chemistry Social on his theory of "atomicity” (Valence), proposing a number of nowaccepted hypotheses, including the divisibility of valences, the existence of free radicals, hydrogen bonds and ion solvation. From 1889 deputy production mang, then production mang, Rabeneck Alizarin Works at Shchelkovo, near Moscow. 1891 established that, in the presence of mercury, the sulfonation of anthraquinone is accompanied by the formation of alpha-sulfoacids and disulfoacids instead of the normal beta-sulfoacids.
Added sodium chloride to eliminate the harmful catalytic reaction of mercury in the sulfonation process. Proposed the use of lime for the conversion of anthraquinone sulfoacids into oxy compounds. 1891 also devised method of obtaining primary blue from alizarin-sapphirol-type acidic anthraquinone dyes.
From 1899 worked for R. Wedekind and Company, Uerdingen, Germany. 1911 developed new absorption dying method. 1914, at outbreak of World War 1, refused to adopt German citizenship and was sent to Muenster, Westphalia, under police escort.
Late 1916 escaped to Russia via Holland. 1916-1920 member, Technical Council, Russian Dye and Paint Board (later Main Board of the Aniline Indiana). 1918-1924 associate professor, Moscow University.
From 1925 in charge of the development of alizarin dye technol for the Aniline Trust and Institute of Organic Semi-Products and Dyes. 1928-1932 did research on the oxidation conversion of anthracene into anthraquinone. 1936, together with A. North. Nikolayeva and A. I. Perel’man, obtained alizarin directly from anthraquinone by oxidation synthesis, bypassing the sulfonation and alkalization stages.
Religion is bad because it gets people to believe something untrue.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Honorary member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1935.