Web-site of Laboratory of Metal-Mediated Synthesis
Head of Physical Organic Chemistry
Vadim Yu. Kukushkin, RAS Corresponding Member, Full Professor, Dr.Sc.
Office: 4161; voice:+7 (812) 428-6890;e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Faculty
- Nadezhda A. Bokach, Dr. Sc., Associate Professor
- Vadim P.Boyarskiy, Dr. Sc., Full Professor
- Tatiana G. Chulkova, Ph. D., Associate Professor
- Pavel V. Gushchin, Ph. D., Assistant Professor
- Ivan I.Eliseev, Ph. D., Assistant Professor
- Vladimir S.Karavan, Ph. D., Associate Professor
- Sergey A. Miltsov, Ph. D., Associate Professor
- Stanislav I.Selivanov, Ph. D., Associate Professor
- Peter M. Tolstoy, Ph. D., Associate Professor
Research Staff
- Evgenii V. Eliseenkov, Ph. D., Senior Research Fellow
- Aleksander N. Kasatochkin, Ph. D., Senior Research Fellow
- Aleksander A. Petrov, Ph. D., Senior Research Fellow
Technical Staff
- Irina A. Baranova
- Mikhail A. Kinzhalov
- Konstantin A. Stepanov
Main Lecture Courses
- Physical Organic Chemistry
- Theoretical Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
- Homogeneous Catalysis involving Metal Complexes
- Organometallic Chemistry of Transition Metals
- Introduction to NMR Spectroscopy
- Application of NMR Spectroscopy in Organic Chemistry
- Kinetic Methods in Organic Chemistry
Research Areas: organometallic chemistry, coordination chemistry, organic synthesis involving metal complexes, homogeneous catalysis, activation of small molecules, ligand reactivity.
Current Funded Research Projects
- Molecular design of new carbene platinum group metal complexes and their application formetal-catalyzed functionalization of aryl halides. It includes development of synthetic methods leading to metal speciesfeaturing acyclic diamino carbenes (ADCs), viz.coupling of metal-bound alkyl- and aryl isocyanides with various N-nucleophiles and studies of catalytic activity of these complexes in cross-coupling systems;
- Synthetic potential of cobalt-catalyzed carbonylation of aryl halides. Chemo-and regioselectivity of the carbonylation and inspection of driving forcesaffecting the conversion. Study of catalyst structures. Development of technologically and environmentally benignCo-catalyzed routesfor recycling persistent organic pollutants (PCBs);
- Dipolar cycloaddition to the activated CNtriple bond. Metal-activation of unreactive dipolarophiles (e.g., isocyanides, nitriles,or dialkylcyanamides) in dipolar cycloadditions, synthesis of new classes of heterocycles based on 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition involving transition metal speciesand/or Lewis acids;
- Copper-catalyzed C–N cross-coupling reactions;
- Synthesis of annulated pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines;
- Chemistry and photophysics of 1,3,5-triazapentadienesmetal complexes. Molecular design of d8-metal 1,3,5-triazapentadienesspeciesexhibiting efficient luminescent properties;
- Hydrogen bonding. Study of hydrogen bonding in biomolecules and relevant model systems by NMR spectroscopy;
- Weak interactions in organometallic chemistry. Non-covalent interactions of halides with the CH-donorshydrogen bond donors and H-bonding with HO-, HN-donors in the solid phase by X-ray diffraction method.New types of XBhalogen bonding.