Živojin Jocić (6 October 1870 in

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– 23 January 1914 in

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) was a Serbian

organic chemist Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the science, scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic matter, organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain ...

. Jocić studied chemistry at the

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. After his graduation in 1898, he stayed at the university and worked as an assistant. His teacher was

Alexey Favorsky Alexey Yevgrafovich Favorsky (; – 8 August 1945), was a Russian and Soviet chemist and recipient of the Stalin Prize (1941) and the title Hero of Socialist Labour (1945). Life Favorsky studied chemistry at the imperial Saint Petersburg Stat ...

. In a relatively short time – between 1897 and 1911 – he published a large number of papers in

organic chemistry Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the science, scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic matter, organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain ...

, for the most part dealing with the synthesis of

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and synthesis by means of

Grignard reagent Grignard reagents or Grignard compounds are chemical compounds with the general formula , where X is a halogen and R is an organic group, normally an alkyl or aryl. Two typical examples are methylmagnesium chloride and phenylmagnesium bromi ...

. He discovered the Jocic reaction, which involves

nucleophilic In chemistry, a nucleophile is a chemical species that forms bonds by donating an electron pair. All molecules and ions with a free pair of electrons or at least one pi bond can act as nucleophiles. Because nucleophiles donate electrons, they a ...

displacement of the

hydroxyl group In chemistry, a hydroxy or hydroxyl group is a functional group with the chemical formula and composed of one oxygen atom covalently bonded to one hydrogen atom. In organic chemistry, alcohols and carboxylic acids contain one or more hydroxy ...

in a 1,1,1-trichloro-2-hydroxyalkyl structure with concomitant conversion of the trichloromethyl portion to a

carboxylic acid In organic chemistry, a carboxylic acid is an organic acid that contains a carboxyl group () attached to an Substituent, R-group. The general formula of a carboxylic acid is often written as or , sometimes as with R referring to an organyl ...

or similar

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jocic, Zivojin 1870 births 1914 deaths Serbian chemists Organic chemists Serbian expatriates the Russian Empire

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