Nikolai Menshutkin

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin
Николай Александрович Меншуткин
Born(1842-10-24)October 24, 1842
DiedFebruary 5, 1907(1907-02-05) (aged 64)
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
NationalityRussian
Known forDiscovery of the Menshutkin reaction
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity 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]

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