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Viktor V. Zhdankin

Professor                                           

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1039 University Drive
University of Minnesota Duluth 
Duluth, Minnesota 55812-3020
Phone: (218) 726-6902
Fax: (218) 726-7394
E-mail: vzhdanki@d.umn.edu





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PERSONAL DATA:

BORN: 1956 in Russia; Naturalized US Citizen since 1999

ADDRESS: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1039 University Drive, University of Minnesota Duluth,  Duluth, MN 55812

TELEPHONE: Office - (218) 726-6902; FAX: (218) 726-7394




EDUCATION:

Doctor of Science (the highest scientific degree in Russia): 1987, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Ph.D. (Russian analog): 1981, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Advisor: Professor Nikolai S. Zefirov

B.S./M.S. (Russian analog): 1978, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, July 1999 - present.
Director of Graduate Studies in Chemistry (Chem–Duluth program), University of Minnesota, July 2002 - May 2006.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, July 1996 - June 1999.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, September 1993-June 1996.
Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah (with Professor P.J. Stang), January 1990 - August 1993.
Instructor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, January 1991 - August 1993.
Leading Research Fellow - Head of Research Group, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, October 1989 - December 1992.
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, October 1988 - October 1989.
Visiting Scientist (IREX exchangee), Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, December 1987 - September 1988.
Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, U.S.S.R.,  January 1982 - December 1987.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Exploratory Synthetic Organic Chemistry of Hypervalent Main-Group Elements: preparation, identification and uses of new organic derivatives of iodine(III), xenon(II), selenium(IV), phosphorus(V).
Chemistry of Organoboronic Acids: preparation, structural investigation and synthetic utilization of 1-hydroxybenzoboroxoles and alkynylboronates.
Synthetic Organic Chemistry of Fluorine: preparation of perfluoroalkylated compounds; organic reactions of powerful fluorinating reagents (XeF2, CsOSO2OF, etc.); synthetic application of fluoroorganic compounds.
Mechanistic Physical-Organic Chemistry: generation and chemistry of carbocations and other reactive intermediates; nucleophilic reactivity; electrophilic addition to unsaturated compounds.
Chemistry of Acetylenes: preparation and synthetic application of novel substituted acetylenes.

SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AWARDS

•  University of Minnesota Jean G. Blehart Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006
•  Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Research, 2004
•  Camille and Henry Dreyfus Scholar, 1997-2000
 Scientific Editor and a Member of Control Board of ARKIVOC, Online Journal of Organic Chemistry (http://www.arkat-usa.org/), April 2003 - present.
•  Member of Editorial Board; Mendeleev Communications, March 1998 - present.
•  Member of Editorial Board; Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry, January 1989 - January 1993.
•  Member of Editorial Board; Journal of the Mendeleev's Russian Chemical Society, March 1989 - January 1996.
•  Member of Panel-2 (Organic Chemistry) of International Science Foundation on Long-Term Research Grants (Washington, DC), December 1993 - January 1995.
 Member of Organizing Committee of First International Conference on Hypervalent Iodine, Thessaloniki/Halkidiki, Greece, September 2001; Second International Conference on Hypervalent Iodine, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2006; International symposium “Advances in Science for Drug Discovery”, Moscow, 2005.
•  Honorable Diploma of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. for Young Scientists, 1985.
•  National Award from the Government of the U.S.S.R. for a Scientific Discovery "Nucleophilic Properties of Nucleofugic Anions", 1985.


SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS (Total 204 papers):

Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III, Volume 5 (10 chapters): “Triazoles, Oxadiazoles, Thiadiazoles and their Fused Carbocyclic Derivatives,” V.V. Zhdankin, Ed.; Elsevier, Oxford, 2008.

Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III, Volume 6 (18 chapters): “Other Five-Membered Rings with Three or More Heteroatoms and their Fused Carbocyclic Derivatives,” V.V. Zhdankin, Ed.; Elsevier, Oxford, 2008.

Heterocycles with Three or Four Heteroatoms Including At Least One Phosphorus. Zhdankin, V.V. In Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III. Katritzky, A.R.; Ramsden, C.A.; Scriven, E.F.V.; Taylor, R.J.K., Eds.; Elsevier, Oxford, 2008, Vol. 6, Chapter 13, pp 583-602.

Preparation and X-ray Structures of 3-[Bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo]benzoic acid and 3-[Hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]benzoic acid, New Recyclable Hypervalent Iodine Reagents. Yusubov, M.S.; Funk, T.V.; Chi, K.-W.; Cha, E.-H.; Ghyung, H.K.; Kirschning, A.; Zhdankin, V.V. J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 295-297.

Preparation and Reactivity of Polymer-Supported 2-Iodylphenol Ethers, an Efficient Recyclable Oxidizing System. Karimov, R.R.; Kazhkenov, Z.M.; Modjewski, M.J.; Peterson, E.M.;  Zhdankin, V.V. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 8149-8151.

Preparation and Structure of Oligomeric Iodosylbenzene Sulfate (PhIO)3•SO3: Stable and Water-soluble Analog of Iodosylbenzene. Koposov, A.Y.; Netzel, B.C.; Yusubov, M.S.; Nemykin, V.N.; Nazarenko, A.Y.; Zhdankin, V.V. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 4475-4478.

Hypervalent Iodoarenes and Aryliodonium Salts. Zhdankin, V.V. Science of Synthesis, 2007, 31, Ch. 31.4.1, 161-234.

N-(2-Iodylphenyl)acylamides - New Pentavalent Iodine Oxidizing Reagents. Ladziata, U.; Zhdankin, V.V. Synlett 2007, 527-537.

m-Iodosylbenzoic Acid as a Convenient Recyclable Reagent for Highly Efficient RuCl3-Catalyzed Oxidation of Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds. Yusubov, M.S.; Gilmkhanova, M.P.; Zhdankin, V.V.; Kirschning, A. Synlett 2007, 563-566.

trans Influences on Hypervalent Bonding of Aryl λ3-Iodanes: Their Stabilities and Isodesmic Reactions of Benziodoxolones and Benziodazolones. Ochiai, M.; Sueda, T.; Miyamoto, K.; Kiprof, P.; Zhdankin, V.V. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 8203-8206.

Hypervalent Iodine(V) Reagents in Organic Synthesis. Ladziata, U.; Zhdankin, V.V. ARKIVOC 2006, (ix), 26-58.

Facile Preparation and Reactivity of Polymer-Supported N-(2-Iodyl-phenyl)-acylamide, an Efficient Oxidizing System. Ladziata, U.; Willging, J.; Zhdankin, V.V. Org. Lett. 2006, 7, 167-170.

Highly Efficient RuCl3-Catalyzed Disproportionation of (Diacetoxyiodo)benzene to Iodylbenzene and Iodobenzene; Leading to the Efficient Oxidation of Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds. Yusubov, M.S.; Chi, K.-W.; Park, J.Y.; Karimov, R.; Zhdankin, V.V. Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 6305-6308.

Synthesis and Oxidative Reactivity of New Chiral Hypervalent Iodine(V) Reagents Based on (S)-Proline. Ladziata, U.; Carlson, J.; Zhdankin, V.V. Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 6301-6304.

Preparation and Reductive Decomposition of 2-Iodoxybenzenesulfonic Acid; X-Ray Crystal Structure of 1H-1-Hydroxy-1,2,3-benziodoxathiole 3,3-dioxide. Koposov, A.Y.; Litvinov, D.N.; Zhdankin, V.V.; Ferguson, M.J.; McDonald, R.; Tykwinski, R.R. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 4791-4795.

2-Iodylphenol Ethers: Preparation, X-Ray Crystal Structure, and Reactivity of New Hypervalent Iodine(V) Oxidizing Reagents. Koposov, A.Y.; Karimov, R.R.; Geraskin, I.; Nemykin, V.N.; Zhdankin, V.V. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 8452-8458.

RuCl3-catalyzed Oxidation of Iodoarenes with Peracetic Acid: New Facile Preparation of Iodylarenes. Koposov, A.Y.; Karimov, R.R.; Pronin, A.A.; Skrupskaya, T.; Yusubov, M.S.; Zhdankin, V.V. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 9912-9914.

Selective Oxidation of Sulfides to Sulfoxides Using IBX-Esters. Koposov, A.Y.; Zhdankin, V.V. Synthesis 2005, 22-25.

Derivatives of 2-Iodoxybenzenesulfonic Acid: New Pseudocyclic Hypervalent Iodine Reagents. Zhdankin, V.V.; Goncharenko, R.N.; Litvinov, D.N.; Koposov, A.Y. ARKIVOC 2005, (4), 8-18.

Benziodoxole-Based Hypervalent Iodine Reagents in Organic Synthesis. Zhdankin, V.V. Curr. Org. Synth. 2005, 2, 121-145.

Esters of 2-Iodoxybenzoic Acid (IBX-Esters): Hypervalent Iodine Oxidizing Reagents with a Pseudobenziodoxole Structure. Zhdankin, V.V.; Koposov, A.Y.; Litvinov, D.N.; Ferguson, M.J.; McDonald, R.; Luu, T.; Tykwinski, R.R. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 6484-6491.

Intra- and Intermolecular Interactions in the Solid State Structure of 2-Iodylbenzenesulfonamides: a Heptacoordinated Organic Iodine(V) Compound. Koposov, A.Y.; Nemykin, V.N.; Zhdankin, V.V. New J. Chem. 2005, 29, 998-1000.

Synthesis, Structure and Chemoselective Reactivity of N-(2-Iodylphenyl)-acylamides, Novel Hypervalent Iodine Reagents Bearing Pseudo Six-membered Ring Scaffold. Ladziata, U.; Koposov, A.Y.; Lo, K.Y.; Willging, J.; Nemykin, V.N.; Zhdankin, V.V. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 7127-7131.

Alkynyl Halides and Chalcogenides. Zhdankin, V.V. In Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II. Katritzky, A.R.; Taylor, R.J.K., Eds.; Elsevier, Oxford, 2004, Vol. 2, Chapter 21, 1073-1114.

Preparation and Structure of 2-Iodoxybenzoate Esters: Soluble and Stable Periodinane Oxidizing Reagents. Zhdankin, V.V.; Litvinov, D.N.; Koposov, A.Y.; Luu, T.; Ferguson, M.J.; McDonald, R.; Tykwinski, R.R. J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 2004, 106-107.

2-Iodoxybenzenesulfamides: New Pseudobenziodoxole-Based Hypervalent Iodine Reagents. Koposov, A.Y.; Litvinov, D.N.; Zhdankin, V.V. Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 2719-2721.

4,4'-Bis(dichloroiodo)biphenyl and 3-(Dichloroiodo)benzoic Acid: New Recyclable Hypervalent Iodine Reagents for Vicinal Halomethoxylation of Unsaturated Compounds. Yusubov, M.S.; Drygunova, L.A.; Zhdankin, V.V. Synthesis 2004, 2289-2292.

Amino acid-derived iodobenzene dicarboxylates: Reagents for oxidative conversion of alkenes to amino acid esters. Koposov, A.Y.; Boyarskikh, V.V.; Zhdankin, V.V.  Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 3613-3615.

C–C Bond Forming Reactions. Zhdankin, V.V. In Topics in Current Chemistry, Vol. 224, Wirth, T., Ed.; Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003, Chapter 4, pp. 99-136.

Preparation and Chemistry of Phosphorane-Derived Iodanes. Zhdankin, V.V.; Maydanovych, O.; Herschbach, J.; Bruno, J.; Matveeva, E.D.; Zefirov, N.S. J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 1018-1023. 

IBX Amides: New Family of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents. Zhdankin, V.V.; Koposov, A.Y.; Netzel, B.C.; Yashin, N.V.; Rempel, B.P.; Ferguson, M.J.; Tykwinski, R.R. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 2194-2196. (Placed on Angew. Chem. Hot Articles Website).

Synthesis and Structure of Amino Acid-Derived Benziodazoles: New Hypervalent Iodine Heterocycles. Zhdankin, V.V.; Koposov, A.Y.; Su, L.; Boyarskikh, V.V.; Netzel, B.C.; Young, V.G. Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 1583-1586. (Placed on ACS Hot Articles Website).


Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Polyvalent Iodine Compounds. Zhdankin, V.V.; Stang, P.J. Chem. Rev. 2002, 102, 2523-2584.

Complexes of Hypervalent Iodine Compounds with Nitrogen Ligands. Zhdankin, V.V.; Koposov, A.Y.; Yashin, N.V. Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 42, 5735-5737.

Preparation, Structure, and Unexpected Chemistry of Phosphoranyl Derived Benziodoxoles. Zhdankin, V.V.; Maydanovych, O.; Herschbach, J.; Tykwinski, R.R.; McDonald, R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11614-11615.

Functionalization of Buckminsterfullerene by Hypervalent Iodine Reagents. Zhdankin, V.V.; Hanson, K.J.; Koposov, A.E.; Blomquist, E.; Tykwinski, R.R. Mendeleev Commun. 2001, 51-52.

Secondary Bonding-Directed Self-Assembly of Amino Acid Derived Benziodazoles: Synthesis and Structure of Novel Hypervalent Iodine Macrocycles. Zhdankin, V.V.; Koposov, A.E.; Smart, J.T.; Tykwinski, R.R.; McDonald, R.; Morales-Izquierdo, A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 4095-4096.




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