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electrical engineering (semiconductors, photoconductors, insulating compounds,
lacquers, adhesives, resists); advanced materials and innovative technologies
(silver-free photosensitive materials, recording media, components for ceramics,
highly strong, super hard and heat-resistant materials).
Innovative technologies for the preparation of a number of original products with no
analogues elsewhere in the world, such as ethylene glycol vinylglycidyl ether
(`vinylox'), tetrahydroindole and N-vinyltetrahydroindole, divinylsulfide,
vinyloxyethylmetacrylate, pentaerythrol tetravinyl ether, 2- vinyloxymethyl-1,3dioxolane,
glycerol trivinyl ether, 1,2- divinyloxypropene, methyl ester of 4hydroxy-4-methyl-2-penta-1-carboxylic
acid and potassium N-[2-(vinyloxy)ethyl]dithiocarbamate
(pesticide `Vinditat') have been developed at the Institute.
Over 30 monographs by the Institute's scientists have been published. Annually about 100
papers and 15 reviews are published in leading foreign and Russian journals. The
total number of inventions (Inventor's Certificates and patents) is over 1,500.
The Institute fruitfully cooperates with universities, institutes, companies and organizations
in the USA, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Israel, Japan,
Korea and Mongolia. At present collaborative research with foreign scientists
becomes a first priority in the Institute's policy. Under the conditions of reform
being currently carried out in this country, the Institute should retain its scientific
potential and high level research in traditional fields. Following the inevitable
cutting down of the staff, retainment of the main body (doctors of sciences and
potential Ph.D.) with simultaneous formation of a youth `wing' of talented
graduates and post-graduates from the Irkutsk State University is of vital
importance for the Institute. The prospects for the development of the Irkutsk
Institute of Organic Chemistry are linked with further basic research in the fields of
chemistry of hypervalent organosilicon compounds and of acetylene derivatives -
unsaturated (including heterocyclic) compounds of oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur,
selenium, tellurium, phosphorus, silicon, lithium, sodium and potassium. The
research will be carried out with the emphasis on novel methods of synthesis,
reactions and rearrangements. Even more attention will be given to theoretical
aspects, new types of chemical bonds, unusual molecular structures and the
reactivity of unstable intermediate species (ions, radicals, radical ions, carbenes
with unsaturated fragments and heterocycles). The applied aspect of basic research
is supposed to be directed towards the most important problems to be solved in the
East-Siberian Region - development of optimal and less hazardous technologies for
oil-, gas- and coal-processing, comprehensive utilization of wood, synthesis and
extraction of drugs and other valuable products from natural resources, solution of
ecological problems, especially in the Baikal Lake area.
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664033, Irkutsk-33, Russia
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