Viacheslav Vasil’evich Lebedinskii

One of the lesser known members of the Chugaev school of inorganic chemists, Lebedinskii devoted more than four decades to the synthesis and analysis of co-ordination compounds of the platinum group metals, particularly those of rhodium, iridium, and platinum. He developed a new industrial method for purifying rhodium, and he carried out studies of the extraction and refining of the platinum metals and their separation from dilute solutions and salts.