Department of the Chemistry of Coordination Compounds

Head of Department: Candidate of Chemistry A.S. Burlov

The department has been founded in 1971 during constitution of the Institute. The first head of department was Doctor of Chemistry, Professor, honored personality of science of RSFSR Osip Aleksandrovich Osipov.

O.A. Osipov	A.D. Garnovskii

Later Doctor of Chemistry, Professor S.B. Bulgarevich has guided by the Department.

Since August 1983 till December 2010 the Department has been leaded by Doctor of Chemistry, Professor, Honored Personality of the Science of Russian Federation, Laureate of State Prize of USSR, Chevalier of the Order of the Peoples Friendship, Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Coordination Chemistry Aleksander Dmitrievich Garnovskii.

Beginning from 2011 the Head of Department is senior researcher, PhD on Chemistry Anatolyi Sergeevich Burlov.

During 70th-90th of the last century Doctors of S.B. Bulgarevich, D.Ya. Movshovich, N.N. Kharabaev; senior researchers, Candidates of Chemistry P.V. Gilyanovskii, S.G. Kochin; researchers, Candidates of Chemistry L.S. Minkina, T.A. Yusman, M.G. Gruntfest, N.A. Ivanova, S.E. Filippov, V.A. Alekseenko, N.I. Dorokhova, V.V. Litvinov, Zh.I. Orlova have been with the Department. 

In the present the team of Department includes:
Head of the Department, senior researcher, Candidate of Chemistry A.S. Burlov;
Senior researcher, Doctor of Chemistry V.N. Komissarov;
Senior researchers, Candidates of Chemistry I.S. Vasilchenko, D.A. Garnovskii, A.I. Uraev, V.G. Zaletov;
Researchers, Candidates of Chemistry E.V. Korshunova, S.A. Mashchenko, S.A. Nikolaevskii;
Ph.D. student V.V. Chesnokov.

Five employers of the Department have total Citation Index in 6162. They are: A.D. Garnovskii - 3954 (beginning from 1960), D.A. Garnovskii - 868; A.S. Burlov - 613; I.S. Vasilchenko - 439; A.I. Uraev - 288.

In 2010 two reviews dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Academician V.I. Minkin have been published:
A.D. Garnovskii, A.S. Burlov, I.S. Vasil'chenko, D.A. Garnovskii, A.I. Uraev, E.V. Sennikova. Molecular Design of Azomethine Complexes // Rus. J. Coord. Chem. 2010. V. 36. No. 2. P. 81-96.
Yu.E. Alexeev, B.I. Kharisov, T.C. Hernandez-Garcia, A.D. Garnovskii. Coordination motifs in modern supramolecular chemistry // Coord. Chem. Rev. 2010. V.254. P.794-831.

Also two Patents of RF have been received:
A.V. Metelitsa, A.S. Burlov, S.O. Bezuglyi, I.G. Borodkina, I.S. Vasilchenko, D.A. Garnovskii, S.A. Mashchenko, G.S. Borodkin, A.D. Garnovskii, V.I. Minkin. Bis[2-(tosylamino)benzilidene-N-alkyliminates]zinc possessing luminescent activity // Patent RF No 2395512. 27.07.2010. Bul. No 21.
V.I. Minkin, A.Yu. Tsivadze, A.S. Burlov, A.V. Vannikov, A.D. Garnovskii, A.V. Dmitriev, D.A. Lypenko, E.I. Maltsev, A.V. Metelitsa, I.S. Vasilchenko, D.A. Garnovskii. Electroluminescent substance and electroluminescent device // Patent RF No 2408648. 10.01.2011. Bul. No 1.

For the last 10 years employers of the Department have published 20 articles in the international journals and more than 100 articles in the Russian ones including 25 reviews; have been received 14 Patents of RF; have been published more than 150 abstracts in International and All-Russian conferences. 

For the last time the Department has been appended by young scientists. In 2010-2011 years Ph. D. students S.A. Nikolaevskii, T.O. Shmakova, S.A. Mashchenko successfully have sustained their dissertations.

Scientific researcher E.V. Korshunova has received grant of President of RF of the state support of young scientists.

S.A. Nikolaevskii during 2008-2009 years was awarded with Special Grant of RF for Ph.D. students, twice (01.04.2010-30.09.2010 and 01.07.2011-31.12.2011) has been trained in the Laboratory of coordination compounds of platinum metals of the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of RAS under financial support of the RFBR Program "Mobility of young Russian scientists". In 2010 he has been awarded by diploma "For the best scientific work" among employers of the Southern Federal University, in 2012 he has been awarded by the Second Premium of Novosiberian branch of RCS name of D.I. Mendeleev for the results that have been presented on the VII All-Russian Conference on the Chemistry of Polynuclear Compounds and Clusters (Cluster-2012).

The general research lines:

• Coordination chemistry of transition metals and organic ligands.
• Selection and modification (rational design) of the ligand systems - azomethines, azocompounds and nitrogen-containing heterocycles with N,O,S,Se,Te-donor centers.
• Chemical and electrochemical synthesis of metallocomplexes of the above ligands with the goal of directed creation of complexes with the set geometry of coordination unit and the operated mode of localization of coordination bond.
• Synthetic models of nonporphirine metalloproteines.
• Copper(I) and silver(I) acetylenides in organic synthesis.
• Heteronuclear NMR and ESR spectroscopy.
• Quantum chemistry of ligands and coordination compounds.
• Photochromism and luminescence. Creation of low-molecular weight organic electroluminescent devices (OLED) on the base of directly synthesized luminescent-active azocompounds, cyclic and acyclic Schiff bases and their mono- and binuclear metallocomplexes.
• Metalcontaining additives to lubricants.
• Corrosion inhibitors.
• Creation of magnetoactive metallocomplexes.
• Investigation of tautomerism of heterocyclic ligand systems and stabilization of tautomeric forms under complexation.
• Metal-promoted reactions of nitriles and oximes.

Scientific work of the department was partially supported by Russian Fund for Basic Researches (14 grants) and programs of the Ministry of education and science of RF, and Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 2012 investigations of department is supported by 3 grants of RFBR, grant of President of RF on the state support of the young Russian scientists - candidates of sciences. Employers of the department carry out the program of fundamental investigations of Presidium of RAS No 8 "Working out of the chemical species synthesis and creation of the novel materials", take part in the work of the leading scientific school under the management of Academician V.I. Minkin (grant of President of RF NS-927/2012.3).

Educational activity:

during long time students of the Chemical faculty of SFU have done practical works, prepared course works and graduate thesis in the Department - for the last ten years more than 50 graduate thesis of students of the Chemical faculty of SFU and 8 magister's thesis of students of Pedagogical institute of SFU have been examined. Members of the department guide the investigations of Ph.D. students. For the existing of the Department it was successfully maintained a thesis for a 5 doctor's and 18 candidate degrees.

Scientific relations of the Department: 

• N.S. Kurnakov Institute of general and inorganic chemistry of RAS (Moscow)
• A.N. Frumkin Institute of physical chemistry and electrochemistry of RAS (Moscow)
• A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of organoelement compounds of RAS (Moscow)
• Moscow state university
• N.D. Zelinskii Institute of organic chemistry of RAS (Moscow)
• Photochemical center of RAS (Moscow)
• Institute of the problems of chemical physics of RAS (Chernogolovka)
• International center of tomography of the Siberian branch of RAS (Novosibirsk)
• Southern scientific center of RAS (Rostov-on-Don)
• Sankt-Peterburg state university
• Kuban state university (Krasnodar)
• Ural technical university (Ekaterinburg)
• Dagestan state technical university (Makhachkala)
• Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Monterrey, Mexico)
• Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
• Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
• Trakay university (Erdene, Turkey)
• West Ontario university (London, Canada)
• T.G. Shevchenko Kiev state university (Ukraine)
• Institute of general and inorganic chemistry of NAS of Ukraine (Kiev)
• Institute of chemistry of Academy of sciences of Republic of Moldova (Kishinev)
• Kishinev state university (Moldova)

Sport achievements

Department team (D.A. Garnovskii, I.S. Vasilchenko, A.I. Uraev) repeatedly won the first place in the billiards competition in the frameworks of Games of professor-teacher stuff and employers of SFU.