Named in honor of Oleg Matveevich Nefedov (b. 1931), vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences and chairman of the National Committee of Russian chemists. An outstanding scientist in the field of physical, synthetic and technical organic chemistry, he is best known for his fundamental research on highly reactive intermediates and small cycles. Name proposed by the discoverer following a suggestion by the Institute of Applied Astronomy.
Discovered on 2-9-1981 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.