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         Date of Birth:   October 8, 1953
         Place of Birth:  Moscow, Russia (USSR)

Higher Education - Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Russia

1988 - Doctor of Sciences, "Mechanisms of Formation and Transformation of Palladacycles"

1979 - Doctor of Philosophy, "Kinetics and Mechanisms of Oxidative Coupling of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons in the Presence of Palladium" (supervised by Prof. A. K. Yatsimirsky)

1976 - Graduated the Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University

Professional Experience

Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry, G. V. Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy, Moscow, Russia; February 1989 -; Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemical Enzymology, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University; Moscow, Russia; September 1993 -

Senior Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University; 1988-1989

Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University; 1986-1988

Junior Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University; 1976-1986

Prizes and Awards

1991 - 1993 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany (headed by Prof. R. van Eldik)

1994 March-April Visiting Professor at Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France).

1997-1998 Wenner-Gren Guest Professor, University of Lund (Sweden)

1997 RSC Journals Grants Award for International Authors

1998-1999 The Honored Soros Professor

Professional Activities

Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. Editor of Referativny Zhurnal (1985-1991).  Scientific editor of Izvestia RAN, Ser. Khim.. Routine reviewing of manuscripts for Metalloorganicheskaya Khimia (1985-1991), Izvestia AN, Ser. Khim., Inorganic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie, Organometallics, J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Organomet. Chem., Inorg. Chim. Acta, Anal. Letters, Mendeleev Communications, J. Chim. Phys..  Guest Editor Appl. Biochem. Biotech, 1996, 62(1/2).

Research Interests

Inorganic, bioinorganic and organometallic chemistry with special emphasis at organometallic and inorganic biochemistry utilizing oxidoreductases, dehydrogenases, peroxidases and oxidases in particular.  Bioelectrochemistry. Biosensors.  Inorganic and organometallic synthesis.  Cyclometallation and reactions of cyclometallated compounds.  Chemical and biochemical kinetics and reaction mechanisms.  Various aspects of activation of C-H bonds by metal centers.
 

Selected Publications