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The field of his scientific interest includes the detailed mechanism and active component
structure of sulfide HDS catalysts; anchored metal complexes; synthesis and
characterization of metal complexes of Mo, W, Re, Ni and Co; design of supported
catalysts; catalysts and unsteady-state process for dearomatization of oil fractions;
carbon supported catalysts for hydrodemetallization of heavy crude oils; catalysts
for bio-oils upgrading. Anatoliy N. Startsev has promoted the concerted mechanism
of hydrodesulfurization catalysis, proposed the unsteady-state process of
dearomatization, developed a new approach to synthesizing supported bimetal
catalysts via the "surface assembling" of direct precursor of the HDS catalyst active
component.
STOYANOV Eugeniy Stepanovich, doctor of chemical sciences (1991)
senior researcher
His research interests comprise studying the composition and structure of all-type
complexes and associates formed in solutions, their solvation and hydration,
intermolecular interactions, and the problems related to the very strong H-bonds
formation. Eugeniy S. Stoyanov uses various spectroscopic techniques, namely IR,
Raman and NMR, in his studies.
TALSI Eugenii Pavlovich, doctor of chemical sciences (1991)
senior researcher I
Eugeniy P. Talsi is occupied with the NMR and ESR in situ studies of key intermediates of
homogeneous catalytic oxidation and oxidative coupling. Two types of palladium
superoxide complexes with different modes of O2** coordination to palladium (*
or **) were found. Superoxide complexes (*-mode) appear to oxidize quantitatively
ethylene to ethylene oxide. Using 95Mo, 51V, 59Co, 17O, 1H NMR spectroscopy
and EPR technique, metal complexes formed in catalytic oxidation of alkanes by
organic hydroperoxides and hydrogen peroxide were characterized. Alylperoxo and
peroxo complexes of Mo, V, Co and Ti were detected and studied in situ.
Peroxotitanium(IV) complex Ti(O2)(OEt)2(EtOH)2 was characterized in the
reaction of Ti(OEt)4 and HOOH. The complex can selectively epoxidize
cyclohexene and hydroxylate phenol. New low-spin peroxoiron(III) complexes
Fe(bpy)2(OOH)Py, Fe(phen)2(OOH)Py, active towards cyclohexane, were found
in the Gif-type catalytic systems. Using 59Co, 13C and 1H NMR it has been
shown that the so-called cobalt(III) acetate is a mixture of two types of oxocentered
trinuclear cations [Co3O(OAc)6(AcOH)3]+ and
[Co3O(OAc)5(OH)(AcOH)3]+.
TOLSTIKOV Aleksandr Genrikhovich
doctor of chemical sciences (1993)
Winner of Leninskiy Komsomol Prize (1986)
Winner of Russia State Prize (1993)
Expert in the fine organic synthesis
VENIAMINOV Sergey Alekseevich candidate of chemical sciences (1963)
Head of Research Group of Unsteady-State-Kinetic Methods
Sergey A. Veniaminov studies the mechanism of model and industrially important catalytic
reactions over oxide catalysts based on molybdenum and antimony. He uses a
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