Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds

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The A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds[1][2][3][4][5] of Russian Academy of Sciences (INEOS RAS) [6] (Russian: Институт элементоорганических соединений Российской Академии Наук им. А.Н. Несмеянова (ИНЭОС РАН)) was founded in 1954 by a prominent scientist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, academician A. N. Nesmeyanov (1899–1980), who was a "father" of the modern chemistry of organoelement and organometallic compounds.[7][8] He headed the Institute for 26 years. Major directions of research of the Institute are the following: Laboratories of Organoelement Profile, Laboratories of Polymer Profile, and Laboratories of Physical Profile.

The successors of A.N. Nesmeyanov as directors of the Institute were the Members of the Academy of Sciences of USSR and afterwards the Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences:

At present INEOS RAS is a large research centre having ~660 employees with 564 scientific researchers of various levels. 77 Professors, holding Doctor of Science (Dr. Sci.) degree, and 248 researchers having PhD degree are actively working at INEOS RAS.

INEOS RAS is an internationally recognized research establishment, where the chemistry of organoelement and macromolecular compounds is developed. Its reputation as a scientific centre in chemistry is very high both in Russia and abroad. Many outstanding scientists who initiated new directions in organic and organoelement chemistry, polymer chemistry, physical chemistry, and physics, such as K.A. Andrianov, I.L. Knunyants, V.V. Korshak, I.V. Obreimov, M.E. Vol’pin, M.I. Kabachnik, O.A. Reutov, D.N. Kursanov, Yu.T. Struchkov, R.Kh. Freydlina, A.I .Kitaigorodsky, T.A. Mastryukova, M.Yu. Antipin and many others have been fruitfully working at INEOS RAS.

For recent years the scientific activities of the Institute have been supported by ~20 international grants (7th European Commission program, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNCF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), etc.), 50-60 grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), more than 50 grants from the Presidium of the RAS and Department of Chemistry and Material Sciences of the RAS. INEOS is also incorporated in six Federal Scientific and Technical Programmes. Six young scientists received personal Grants from the President of Russian Federation for Government support of Young Russian Scientists and four scientists received the grants from Foundation for Russian Science Support.

One of the important part of the INEOS RAS activity aimed at the future is the training of young specialists of high qualification. In 2003, a scientific educational centre “INEOS Department” was founded within the framework of the RAS Presidium Programme “Support for Young Scientists” and according to the resolution of the INEOS RAS Scientific Council. The goal of the Centre is to train a new generation of young highly educated specialists of wide profile who know modern research methods, on the basis of the priority scientific line performed at INEOS RAS.

The results of scientific research carried out at the Institute since 2008 have been summarized in more than 1500 scientific papers and 16 monographs. For the past five years, mutually beneficial contracts have been signed with numerous universities, institutes and industrial centres in Russia and abroad. Outstanding foreign scientists and representatives of science-oriented companies are frequent visitors to INEOS RAS. The Institute participates in several joint projects with foreign institutions and companies directed to research collaboration and commercialization of “know-how” and new synthesized products.

Within the recent years INEOS RAS participated in organization of more than 20 conferences, symposia, and seminars. The list of most important international meetings includes the following international conferences:

INEOS RAS includes 34 laboratories and 11 research teams:

Division of Organoelement compounds

Division of Macromolecular compounds

Laboratories of Physical Research Methods and Computing Chemistry

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Historical background

At the INEOS’s earliest stages it was implied that synthetic work in organoelement and macromolecular chemistry should be combined with the necessity of relevant theoretical and physical investigations, and therefore many laboratories at INEOS are carrying out their research at the junction of several branches in chemistry and physics. This determines “the points of growth” which lead to progress in modern science and technology as A.N. Nesmeyanov used to say. Apart from traditional, scientific disciplines (to which the organoelement chemistry itself belongs too), valuable experience accumulated during these years has given rise to a series of new scientific fields which are characterized by a unique combination of organic, organoelement, coordination, physical chemistry, and chemistry of the macromolecular and natural biologically active compounds.

Thus, new branches in chemistry have appeared at the junction of organic, organometallic and coordination chemistry, namely the chemistry of the organic derivatives of the transition metals, p-complexes and clusters, asymmetric catalysis etc. The unique properties of these new compounds made it possible to develop new organometallic catalysts, to study an activation of small molecules, including molecular nitrogen, hydrocarbons, etc. Combination of organic and organoelement chemistry with the experimental and theoretical methods of physical chemistry promoted the development of relevant studies in reactivity, structural chemistry, catalysis and molecular dynamics of organoelement compounds.

The interaction between organophosphorus chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and toxicology made it possible to unlock the secrets of the mechanisms responsible for the action of organophosphorus compounds upon biological structures and living organisms. Significant progress has been also achieved in the field of new tumor-selective anticancer preparations and physiologically active organofluorine compounds.

The works at the junction of the organic and inorganic chemistry, studies of the processes of polymer formation as well as structure—property relations, brought about the chemistry of polymers with organoelement and inorganic molecular chains and opened the routes to novel classes of linear and network polymers. New materials with valuable thermal, catalytic, sorptional and electro-physical properties, engineering plastics, thermostable composites and adhesives, membranes and polymers for electronics and medicine have been made up on the basis of these polymers.

External links

  1. ↑ Institute of Organoelement Compounds RAS
  2. ↑ F. Basolo, "From Coello to inorganic chemistry: a lifetime of reactions", Springer, Kluwer, 2002, pp. 198, 199. ISBN 0-306-46774-7 https://books.google.com/books?id=QaQ4KQREOwgC&pg=PA199
  3. ↑ P M Valetskii, "Review Articles by Scientists at the Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelemental Compounds of the USSR Academy of Sciences", RUSS. CHEM. REV., 1984, 53 (3), 221–221. doi:10.1070/RC1984v053n03ABEH003044
  4. ↑ Yu N Bubnov, "A.N.Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences", RUSS. CHEM. REV., 2004, 73 (5), 415–416. doi:10.1070/RC2004v073n05ABEH000927
  5. ↑ Yu. N. Bubnov and K. A. Kochetkov, "A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds (INEOS), Russian Academy of Sciences: 50 years", Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Volume 40, Number 10, 1375-1379, doi:10.1007/s10593-005-0090-y http://www.springerlink.com/content/p50484938261w12q/
  6. ↑ http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/INEOS
  7. ↑ http://iomc.ras.ru/node/207
  8. ↑ http://www.russianmuseums.info/M1638#web

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