Chemistry of petroleum hydrocarbons. Directions in research

Research in petroleum chemistry has been the basic direction of scientific research in the Department of Organic Chemistry and Petroleum Chemistry sin ce it was founded in 1927. Initiated by Academician S. S. Nametkin, this di rection was continued and developed in the research of his students and fol lowers: V. I. Isagulyants, A. V. Topchiev, N. S. Nametkin, and G. M. Egorov a [1]. Many students were conducted together with the Institute of Petroche mical Synthesis, Academy of Sciences of the USSR (formerly Petroleum instit ute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR) and Institute of Geology and Processi ng of Fossil Fuels, Academy of sciences of the USSR. They include studies o f the composition of crude oils, synthesis of model hydrocarbons, nad catal ytic conversion of hydrocarbons. Such well-known scientists in our country and abroad as Al. A. Petrov and I. V. Kalechits participated in this resear ch.