Olga Bogdanova (chemist)

Olga Konstantinovna Bogdanova was a Soviet chemist who specialized in organic catalysis.

Biography

In the 1920s Bogdanova worked in a laboratory at a synthetic rubber factory.
From the early 1930s she worked at the of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Bordanova was a student and, for many years, a colleague of Academicians N. D. Zelinsky and A. A. Balandin.

In 1941—1942 A. A. Balandin, O. K. Bogdanova, and A. P. Shcheglova developed and implemented at a synthetic rubber factory a method for producing a gas-resistant rubber, which was widely used in the production of a “self-tightening” – or, more accurately, “self-sealing” when struck by bullets – coating for aircraft fuel tanks.
In 1946—1952, a new method was developed for obtaining 1,3 butadiene from petroleum feedstock on chromium oxide catalysts, which found industrial application at synthetic rubber factories in Sterlitamak and Sumgait
In 1974—1981 O. K. Bogdanova and D. P. Belomestnykh developed a way to produce styrene and its homologues through the oxidative decomposition of alkyl-benzene over a complex chromium oxide catalyst, which surpassed all known industrial catalysts used to decompose ethylbenzene.

Bogdanova held a Ph.D. in Chemistry, and she was a senior research associate.
She was buried in the Vagankovo Cemetery.