Research Focus

Coordination Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry: Transition metal complexes with biologically active ligands, noninnocent ligands as potential anticancer drugs or catalysts for alkane oxidation, hydroxylation and hydrocarboxylation.

Publications and Showcasing Research

Projects

• Chirooptical, optical and magnetic probes for protein sensing based on cage metal complexes
Project No. 778245 (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017)

• Metal complexes of indolo-quinolines,-bezazepines, -benzazocines and benzazonines as potential anticancer drugs
Project No. P31293-N37

• Antiproliferative hybrids and their metal complexes as topoisomerase II and hR2 ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) inhibitors
FWF Project No. P28223-N34

• New potential anticancer drugs based on organoruthenium compounds with organic co-ligands
Scientific and technological cooperation, Austria-Serbia, 2016-2017
Partner institution and group leader in Serbia: Inovative Centre, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Prof. Dr. Sanja Grguric-Sipka

• Synthesis, cytotoxicity and mechanistic studies of bioorganometallic thiosemicarbazone complexes
Scientific and technological cooperation, Austria-South Africa, 2017-2018
Partner Institution and group leader in South Africa: Department of Chemistry at the University of Cape Town, Prof. Dr. Gregory Smith

International Collaborations

• Professor Dr. Armando J. L. Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
• Professor Dr. Peter Rapta, Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Food and Chemical Technology, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
• Professor Dr. Joshua Telser, Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA
• Professor Dr. K. Kristoffer Andersson, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, PO Box 1041 Blindern, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway
• Dr. Jóhannes Reynisson, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
• Dr. Sinisa Radulovic, Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Pasterova 14, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
• Professor Dr. Ya. D. Lampeka, L. V. Pisarzhevskii Institute of Physical Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospekt Nauki 31, Kyiv 03028, Ukraine
• Dr. Igor M. Razdobreev, Univ-Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 – PhLAM – Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, CERLA, F-59000, Lille France
• Dr. Ghenadie Novitchi, Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, UPR CNRS 3228, 25 rue des Martyrs, B.P. 166, 38042, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
• Dr. Sergiu Shova, “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Aleea Gr. Ghica Voda 41 A, Iasi 700487, Romania