Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin | |
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Николай Александрович Меншуткин | |
Born | |
Died | February 5, 1907 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire | (aged 64)
Nationality | Russian |
Known for | Discovery of the Menshutkin reaction |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | University of St. Petersburg |
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin (Russian: Николай Александрович Меншуткин; 24 October [O.S. 12 October] 1842 – 5 February [O.S. 22 January] 1907) was a Russian chemist who discovered the process of converting a tertiary amine to a quaternary ammonium salt via the reaction with an alkyl halide, now known as the Menshutkin reaction.[1][2][3]