Lev Chugaev#Contributions to coordination chemistry

{{Short description|Russian chemist (1873–1922)}}

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|name = Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev

|image = Lev Chugaev 1910s.jpg

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|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1873|10|16}}

|birth_place = Moscow, Russian Empire

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1922|9|26|1873|10|16}}

|death_place = Gryazovets, Russian SFSR

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|alma_mater = University of Moscow

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|doctoral_students = Vyacheslav Lebedinsky

|known_for = Chugaev reaction

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|work_institution = University of Moscow
University of Saint Petersburg

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}}Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev ({{langx|ru|Лев Алекса́ндрович Чуга́ев}}; 16 October 1873 – 26 September 1922) was a Russian chemist. At the height of his career, he was professor of chemistry at the University of Petersburg, being the successor to Dmitri Mendeleev. He was active in the fields of inorganic chemistry, especially platinum group complexes, as well as organic chemistry.{{cite journal|author=Kauffman, G. B. |title=Terpenes to Platinum: The Chemical Career of Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev|doi=10.1021/ed040p656|journal= J. Chem. Educ.|year= 1963| volume =40|issue=12|pages=656–665|bibcode=1963JChEd..40..656K}}{{cite journal|author=Kauffman, G. B.|title=A Russian Pioneer in Platinum Metals Research The Life and Work of Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev|url=http://www.technology.matthey.com/pdf/pmr-v17-i4-144-148.pdf|journal=Platinum Metals Rev.|year=1973|volume=17|pages=144–148|doi=10.1595/003214073X174144148 |access-date=30 June 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062620/http://www.technology.matthey.com/pdf/pmr-v17-i4-144-148.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal

| title = Obituary notices: Frederick James Lloyd, 1852–1922; Georg Lunge, 1839–1923; Alexander Smith, 1865–1922; Jokichi Takamine, 1855–1922; Leo Alexandrovitsch Tschugaev, 1873–1922; Frank Edwin Weston, 1867–1923

|author1=J. A. Voelcker |author2=A. Harden |author3=T. M. Lowry |author4=Percival J. Fryer | journal = J. Chem. Soc., Trans.

| volume = 123

| pages = 946–959

| year = 1923

| doi = 10.1039/CT9232300946}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=pCZLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA956 online text for pages 956–958] He is also known as Leo Aleksandrovich Tschugaeff or Tschugaev.