Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist and academic, and a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe was the first to appl

Aleksander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, also Zaitsev, Saytzeff, or Saytzev was a Russian chemist. He worked on organic compounds and proposed Zaytsev's rule, which predicts the product composition of an elim