Exposition
The development of Warsaw School of Organic Chemistry is indebted to Yegor Ye. Vagner, former A.M.Zaitsev and A.M.Butlerov's disciple. Even now the method of "Vagner oxidation" is used for defining the structure of unsaturated compounds.
The Kiev School was established on the basis of Sergey N. Reformatsky's researches. The name of Aleksey A. Albitsky is connected with the development of organic chemistry in Kharkov and with Dmitry M. Marko in the city of Perm.
All mentioned above proves, that Russian schools of organic chemistry originated from the Kazan science, and, it is not occasional, that the Kazan school has a honorary name of "a cradle of Russian chemistry".
Flavian M. Flavitsky is another remarkable scientist, who belonged to Kazan School of Chemistry. He graduated from the Kharkov University, where he attended lectures of N.N.Beketov, who studied under N.N.Zinin in Kazan. During the period from 1870 to 1873 Flavitsky worked in St. Petersburg under the direction of A.M.Butlerov and was recommended by the latter to the Kazan University, where he came in 1873 and began teaching physical chemistry as a separate science.
His Master's thesis is devoted to Butlerov's subject, and the Doctor's degree was a great contribution to the investigation of complex origin of terpenes, natural compounds, which are contained in soft resin, i.e. the resin of conifers of the European part of Russian. The work was of practical importance.
Flavitsky obtained turpentine and rosin of high quality from soft resin, proving possible existence of timber-chemistry industry in Russia. The second half of Flavitsky's activity was dedicated to general and physical chemistry. He founded an original independed school of inorganic chemistry. Among his disciples are D.K.Dobroserdov, A.M.Vasilyev, and A.Ya.Bogorodsky.
One of the most valuable recent acquisitions of the museum is the Flavitsky's pocket laboratory, which was invented by him in 1901. This portable device consists of thirty six inorganic salts and not only makes possible to open 13 basic ions and 19 anions, but also do the analyses of high standard for many substances, working with a small portion of a substance and using the table attached. This laboratory has been patented in many countries all over the world.
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