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

Research Associate at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA) 2001-now

Visiting Research Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA) 2000-2001

Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry, G. V. Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy, Moscow, Russia; February 1989 - 2001 Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemical Enzymology, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University; Moscow, Russia; September 1993 –2002.

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

Professional Activities

Member of Editorial Board of Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms and Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (1996-1999). Editor of Referativny Zhurnal (1985-1991).  Scientific editor of Izvestia RAN, Ser. Khim.. Routine reviewing of manuscripts for Metalloorganicheskaya Khimia (1985-1991), Izvestia RAN, Ser. Khim., Chem. Rev., Inorganic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie, Organometallics, J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Organomet. Chem., Inorg. Chim. Acta, Green Chemistry, Anal. Letters, Mendeleev Communications, Canad. J. Chem., J. Inorg. Biochem.,  J. Chim. Phys.  Guest Editor Appl. Biochem. Biotech, 1996, 62(1/2).

Plenary and Session Invited Speaker At Conferences

1992 (Losanne, Switzerland) 29th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC)

1994 (Bordeaux, France) International Conference on Environmental and Biological Aspects of Main-Group Organometals (ICEBAMO)

1996 (Vancouver, Canada) 31st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC)

1998 (Florence, Italy) 33d International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC)

1998 (Odense, Denmarkk) International Conference on Environmental and Biological Aspects of Main-Group Organometals (ICEBAMO)

2001 (Florence, Italy) 10^th International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry

2002 (Paris, France) 1^st International Conference on Bioorganometallic Chemistry

Teaching Experience (Undergraduate and Graduate Courses)

Division of Chemistry, G. V. Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy, Moscow, Russia

Organic Chemistry (1989-2000); textbook based on the course has been

published  

Concepts of Natural Sciences (1999-2000)

Department of Chemistry, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Bioorganic Chemistry (1993-1998)

Kinetics and Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions in Solution (1993-2000)

Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Organotransition Metal Chemistry (2000-2005)

Mechanisms of Oxidative Processes (2001-2006)

Ph D Students Graduated (Department of Chemistry,

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

Sergei A. Deiko (1985), Inna K. Sakodinskaya (1986), Gregory M. Kazankov (1991), Vasiliy N. Goral (1999), Yulia N. Firsova (1999), Ekaterina Yu. Bezsoudnova (2000), Viktoria S. Sergeeva (2001), Pavel V. Samuleev (2002), Sergei A. Kurzeev (2002), Viktoria S. Kurova (2003), Ekaterina S. Ivanova (2003), Valentin S. Soukharev (2003). 

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.  Green chemistry.