Sergey Namyotkin

Sergey Semyonovich Namyotkin (Russian: Сергей Семёнович Намёткин; 3 July [O.S. 21 June] 1876 – 5 August 1950) was a Russian chemist, a prominent researcher in terpene chemistry and rearrangement of camphenes.[4]

Sergey Namyotkin
Namyotkin with his mentor Nikolay Zelinsky in 1938
Born3 July 1876[1]
Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire[1]
Died5 August 1950 (aged 74)[1]
Moscow, Russia[1]
Alma materMoscow State University[1]
ChildrenNikolay Namyotkin[2]
Alexey Lyapunov (stepson)[3]
AwardsUSSR State Prize (1943, 1949)
Order of Lenin (1946)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1940, 1944, 1945)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
ThesisStudy of biological cyclic compounds (1917[1])
Academic advisorsNikolay Zelinsky[2]

Nametkin Rearrangement

The Nametkin rearrangement is the shift of a methyl group in this scheme and called the 'Nametkin' step. The shift of the ring bond is actually a standard Wagner-Meerwein shift. The reaction can in fact be used to make the terpene, using chlorocamphene.

S.S. Nametkin's Memorial Office

Academician S.S.Nametkin's memorial office, a department of the A.V.Topchiev institute of Petrochimical Synthesis, established in 1974 on occasion of the centenary of academician Nametkin's birth. S.S.Nametkin an outstanding scientist in the field of organic chemistry and petrochemistry, professor of the Moscow State University. Main direction of activity: study, systematization and use of archives; investigation of the manuscripts of unpublished works by S.S.Nametkin in organic chemistry. Sergey Nametkin's Cabinet Museum

References
  1. Намёткин Сергей Семёнович. Moscow State University
  2. НАМЁТКИН, Сергей Семенович. Moscow State University
  3. Семья и окружение. computer-museum.ru
  4. L. A Kalashnikova (1990) "Sergei Semenovich Nametkin: 1876-1950" (Materialy k biobibliografii uchenykh SSSR. Seriia khimicheskikh nauk / Akademiia nauk SSSR). Nauka. ISBN 978-5020019546
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