His father (Nikolai Vasilyevich Nesmeyanov), graduated with excellence Vladimir Gymnasium, and then the Faculty of Law of Moscow University.

[3] In 1920, classes at Moscow State University were frozen due to problems with heating, and Nesmeyanov entered the Military Pedagogical Academy on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street.

[4] While he was working as a night watchman at the faculty, Nesmeyanov lived in the laboratory of N. D. Zelinsky [5] and devoting all his time to scientific experiments.

[6] During the period of Nesmeyanov's rectorship, the construction of a large complex of university buildings on the Sparrow (Lenin) Hills began.

Under his leadership, competent commissions were created to develop technical specifications for the placement of university units in a new location.

In 1951, after the death of the President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, S. I. Vavilov Nesmeyanov was summoned to a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, G. M. Malenkov , who offered to take the vacant post: I replied that such an honor was not to be refused, but felt it necessary to state what might prevent me from accepting such an honorable duty: I began with my vegetarian beliefs, saying that these beliefs had nothing to do with Tolstoyism.

Finally, he recalled that the tradition is such that the president of the Academy of Sciences has so far been non-partisan, and that this is hardly an accident, and I am a member of the party ... And one of the arguments did not make the slightest impression on Malenkov.

The conversation showed me clearly that the matter was settled.On February 16, 1951, at an extraordinary session of the general meeting of the Academy of Sciences, Nesmeyanov was elected its president.

In May 1969, at a meeting of the Academic Council of the Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Nesmeyanov spoke out against being elected a senior researcher Candidate of Chemical Sciences Rokhlin, stating “I am a vindictive person.

Vasily Nesmeyanov (1904–1941) – worked as deputy head of the Topographic and Geodetic Service of the Main Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

[12] Later, the diazo method was extended to the synthesis of organometallic compounds of thallium, germanium, tin, lead, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth.

The study by Nesmeyanov of the products of the addition of mercuric chloride to ethylene, acetylene and their derivatives [13] led to the concept of the “dual reactivity” of a substance and the “transfer of the reaction center” along the chain π, π-, σ, π-, σ, σ- and p,π-conjugations in a molecule.

In the study of the structure of mercury b- , lead- and organotin derivatives of nitrosophenols,[15] Nesmeyanov discovered the phenomenon of metallotropy, that is, a special tautomerism in which a reversible transfer of an organometallic group occurs.

Joint studies by A. N. Nesmeyanov and I. F. Lutsenko discovered heteroatomic tautomerism (between carbon and oxygen atoms) in keto-enol systems of tin , o- and germanium compounds.

Research on ferrocene and its derivatives made it possible to create a number of photosensitive compositions that allow obtaining a stable image on paper, fabric, plastics and metals, and also led to the creation of a new drug, ferrocerone,[16] which fights diseases associated with iron deficiency.

Rybinskaya, developed a method for the synthesis of various five- and six-membered heterocycles, which is based on the high activity of carbonyl groups and the mobility of the β-substituent in compounds of the type RCOCH=CHX.

[17] The reaction of β-substituted vinyl ketones with an azide ion made it possible to study the stereochemistry and propose a mechanism for nucleophilic substitution at the activated double bond.

The study of compounds containing the CCl3-C=C< group showed the rearrangement during reactions with attack on the terminal atoms of the system, which confirmed the presence of σ,π-conjugation.

In continuation of the work related to the previously created diazo method, Nesmeyanov and L. G. Makarova investigated the mechanism of decomposition of aryldiazonium and diaryliodonium salts.

The idea was based on the works of D. I. Mendeleev and M. Berthelot , as well as an awareness of the modern possibilities of organic synthesis, the problems of preserving the environment and the efficiency of food production.

The main areas of work were: the development of highly efficient methods for obtaining nutrients; reproduction of the appearance, taste, smell, color, shape, consistency and other properties of natural products in synthetic food substances.

Alexander Nikolayevich's work on the chemistry of organoelement compounds brought him fame and recognition not only in the Soviet Union, but also in the world.