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Corresponding Members of RAS

Freidlina Rakhil' Khatskelevna (1906–1986)

Corresponding members of the Russian academy of sciences, doctor of sciences, professor, laureate of the State Prize of USSR, holder of the Red Star order and two Red banner of labor orders.

Prof. Freidlina was an outstanding Russian chemist who gained worldwide recognition due to her research in the fields of organometallic chemistry and radical polymerization. She had discovered the 1,2-migration of the chlorine and thiol substituents in radicals as well as 1,5- and 1,6-migrations of hydrogen in the radical polymerization process. She had also developed the waste-less industrial production of the branched carboxylic acids and some other compounds. In 1954 Prof. Freidlina had organized the laboratory of homolytic reactions of organometallic compounds of INEOS RAS and headed it until 1986.

Kursanov Dmitry Nikolaevich (1899–1983)

Corresponding members of the Russian academy of sciences, doctor of sciences, professor, laureate of the Lenin prize of USSR, holder of two Red banner of labor orders.

Prof. Kursanov has organized the Russian scientific school of physical organic chemistry and studied the chemistry of carbenium ions and non-benzenoid aromatic compounds. He had developed new methods of isotope exchange for the investigations of reactivity of numerous organic and organometallic compounds. He had also discovered the ionic hydrogenation (so called Kursanov-Parnes reaction). In 1954 he had organized the laboratory of reaction mechanisms of INEOS RAS and headed it until 1983.

Rafikov Sagid Raufovich (1912–1992)

Corresponding members of the Russian academy of sciences and academician of the Kazakh academy of sciences, doctor of sciences, professor, laureate of the State Ministry Prize of USSR, holder of Red banner of labor and Friendship of peoples orders.

Prof. Rafikov was an outstanding scientist, teacher and organizer. He had investigated the synthesis of various polymers using radical, ionic and polycondensation reactions. He was the first in USSR to obtain the aliphatic polyamides and polyamide-based durable fibers. He had also formulated the basic principles of weak inhibition and developed the novel methods for control of the radical polymerization. These findings allowed the industrial production of the isotropic plexiglas. Prof. Rafikov had also developed the effective catalytic systems for production of synthetic gutta-percha. In 1954 he had organized the polymeric section of INEOS RAS and headed it until 1965. In 1965 he organized the polymeric section of the Institute of chemical sciences of the Kazakh academy of sciences and became the director of the Institute of chemistry of Bashkir regional section of the Russian academy of sciences (1967–1977). Prof. Rafikov was also the advisor of the Academy of sciences of the People republic of China and member of the Supreme Soviet of USSR (three times during 1970–1984).

Mastryukova Tatiana Alexeevna (1925–2006)

Corresponding members of the Russian academy of sciences, doctor of sciences, professor, laureate of the Butlerov and Nesmeyanov prizes of the Russian academy of sciences.

Prof. Mastryukova had carried out the fundamental studies of tautomery and ambident reactivity of various organophosphorus compounds. She had received worldwide scientific recognition, particularly due to investigations of the phosphor-carbon prototropic tautomery, the ring-chain anionic tautomery and the synthesis of sulfur-containing compounds with three- and four-coordinated phosphorous atoms. She had also developed the industrial synthesis of the physiologically active phosphorous compounds using phase-transfer catalysis. Prof. Mastryukova was the head of the laboratory of organophosphorus and organosulfur compounds of INEOS RAS (1969-2000). She had also organized organometallic and organophosphorous laboratories in the Nankai University (China).

Struchkov Yuri Timofeevich (1926–1995)

Corresponding members of the Russian academy of sciences, doctor of sciences, professor, laureate of the State prize of the Russian Federation, as well as the Nesmeyanov and Fedorov prizes of the Russian academy of sciences, president of the National union of Crystallography and vice-president of the International union of Crystallography.

Prof. Struchkov had organized the Russian scientific school of organic crystallography and had investigated the structures of numerous metal complexes, clusters, and other organometallic compounds. He had encouraged wide used of X-ray structural studies in chemical research. He was the first to carry out systematic crystallographic investigations of the low-melting and unstable compounds at low temperatures. Prof. Struchkov had also paid a lot of attention to the investigations of electron density in crystals, the studies of the nature of chemical bonds, and the application of X-ray crystallography for determination of absolute stereochemistry.

The group of Prof. Struchkov had gathered the whole “crystallographic encyclopedia” containing the structural data for the numerous compounds of all the elements of Periodic table: from simple alkanes to medicine drugs, complex metal clusters and fullerenes. In 1977 Prof. Struchkov had organized the laboratory of X-ray single-crystal studies of INEOS RAS which was reorganized into X-ray Structure Center in 1991. According to the Institute for scientific information Prof. Struchkov was one of the most cited scientists in the world.