

Viktor
V. Zhdankin
Professor
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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 |
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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.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, 2006SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS (all papers):
Preparation, X-ray Structure, and Oxidative Reactivity of N-(2-Iodylphenyl)tosylamides and 2-Iodylphenyl Tosylate: Iodylarenes Stabilized by Ortho-Substitution with a Sulfonyl Group. Mailyan, A.K; Geraskin, I.M.; Nemykin, V.N.; Zhdankin, V.V. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 8444-8447.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.
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.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.

