Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev

Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev

Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaitsev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович За́йцев), also spelled as Saytzeff and Saytzev (2 July 1841 – 1 September 1910), was a Russian chemist from Kazan. He worked on organic compounds and proposed Zaitsev's rule, which predicts the product composition of an elimination reaction.