Il’ya Il’ich Chernyaev’s Research on the Platinum Metals

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the trans effect, one of the most fundamental principles in the synthetic chemistry of the platinum metals, as well as the tenth anniversary of the death of its discoverer, Il’ya Il’ich Chernyaev, one of the Soviet Union’s most distinguished scientists and the man who was undisputedly this century’s most prolific worker on the coordination chemistry of platinum.