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 Russia ...

– March 19, 1938,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

), also known as Demjanov and Demjanow, was a Russian

organic chemist Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, J.; ...

and a member of the

USSR Academy of Sciences The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...

(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, photochemical rea ...

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