INTRODUCTION TO AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MARKOVNIKOV'S FIRST PAPER DESCRIBING 'MARKOVNIKOV'S RULE'

摘要

The first volume of the brand new Zhurnal Russkago Fiziko-Khimicheskago Obshchestva,published in 1869, contained several key papers, including Mendeleev's first report of his periodic system of the elements (3) and Markovnikov's first publication of his observations on the formation of alkenes and the addition of unsym-metrical electrophilic reagents to unsymmetrical alkenes (4), which is the subject of this translation.