Nikolai Alexandrovich Prilezhaev, Russian: Николай Александрович Прилежаев, (Born September 15 [O.S.
27], 1887 [1] in Kopossevo near Nizhny Novgorod, died May 26, 1944, in Moscow) was a Russian organic chemist.
The Prilezhaev reaction, in which an alkene and a peroxyacid react to form an epoxide, is named after him.
After earning a master's degree in 1912 in St. Petersburg, he became an associate professor of organic chemistry at the University of Warsaw.
He dealt mostly with oxidation processes, following in the footsteps of chemists such as Alexei Nikolaevich Bach.