Nikolay Yakovlevich Demyanov (russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Демья́нов; ,

Tver Tver ( rus, Тверь, p=tvʲerʲ) is a city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is northwest of Moscow. Population: Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in the Russian ...

– March 19, 1938,

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), also known as Demjanov and Demjanow, was a Russian organic chemist and a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929). He is internationally known for the

Demjanov rearrangement The Demjanov rearrangement is the chemical reaction of primary amines with nitrous acid to give rearranged alcohols. It involves substitution by a hydroxyl group with a possible ring expansion. It is named after the Russian chemist Nikolai Jakovlev ...

organic reaction Organic reactions are chemical reactions involving organic compounds. The basic organic chemistry reaction types are addition reactions, elimination reactions, substitution reactions, pericyclic reactions, rearrangement reactions, Mechanistic Organ ...

and other discoveries. He was a recipient of the Lenin Prize in 1930.

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Academician Nikolay Yakovlevich Demyanov
1861 births 1938 deaths Chemists from the Russian Empire Soviet chemists 20th-century chemists Russian inventors People from Tver Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Imperial Moscow University alumni {{Russia-chemist-stub