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prof. dr. sc. Vesna Petrović Peroković

Title: Full Professor
Location: 311
Public phone number:+381 1 4606 409
Internal phone number:6409
E-mail: E-mail
Department: Division of Organic Chemistry
PhD graduation year:2003

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Biography

Education at Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb: Diploma thesis (Chemistry, 1992); Master thesis (Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, 1996); Doctoral thesis (Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, 2003).

Affiliation and current position: Division of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb: Associate Professor (2015-).

Previous positions: Assistant Professor (2008-2015); Senior Assistant (2003 -2008); Assistant (1996 – 2003), Younger Assistant (1993 – 1996), Division of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.

Visits to foreign research and education institutions:  Technische Universität Wien, Institut für angewandte Botanik, technische Mikroskopie und organische Rohstofflehre, Wien, Austria, ÖAD scholarship (Dr. Leopold Puchinger; 6 months, 1993, 1994)

Research interest:  Synthesis of heterocyclic compounds of the pyridinone type as a metal ions chelators. Synthesis of a mannosylated pyridinones and evaluation of their hemagglutination inhibitory properties as possible FimH antagonists. Synthesis of a lipophilic pyridionone derivatives with potential biological activity. Complexation studies of the pyridinone derivatives with cyclodextrines by NMR spectroscopy. Synthesis and enzymic transformation of acylated monosaccharides. Purification of the enzymes from the natural sources such as mammalian sera.

Scientific papers: co-author of 22 scientific papers in journals indexed in Current Contents database, 3 review article and 6 books

Awards and recognitions and memberships: Member of the Croatian Chemical Society and the Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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List of select publications

  1. V. Petrović Peroković, Ž. Car, A. Usenik, T. Opačak-Bernardi, A. Jurić, S. Tomić, Adamantyl pyran-4-one derivatives and their in vitro antiproliferative activity, Mol. Diversity 24 (2019) 253-263.

  2. V. Petrović Peroković, Ž. Car, T. Opačak-Bernardi, I. Martin-Kleiner, M. Kralj, S. Tomić, In vitro antiproliferative study of novel adamantyl pyridin-4-ones, Mol. Diversity 21 (2017) 881-891.

  3. V. Kovač, R. Ribić, V. Petrović Peroković, S. Tomić Pisarović, L. Barišić, Synthesis, spectral characterization and inhibitory potency of ferrocene-containing mannosides toward type 1 fimbriated Escherichia coli, Appl. Organomet. Chem. 30 (2016) 524-530.

  4. Ž. Car, V. Petrović Peroković, R. Ribić, M. Seničar, S. Tomić: Mannosylated N-Aryl Substituted 3-Hydroxypyridine-4-ones: Synthesis and Hemagglutination Inhibitory Properties, Chem. Biol. Drug Des. 84 (2014) 393-401.

  5. V. Petrović Peroković, A. Gojmerac-Ivšić, Ž. Car, S. Tomić, Synthesis of 3-hydroxy-1-(p-methoxyphenyl)-2-methylpyridine-4-one and spectrophotometric extraction studies on its compexation of vanadium(V), Croat. Chem. Acta 87 (2014) 103-109.

  6. Ž. Car, I. Kodrin, J. Požar, R. Ribić, D. Kovačević, V. Petrović Peroković: Experimental and computational study of the complexation of adamantyl glycosides with β-cyclodextrin, Tetrahedron 69 (2013) 8051-8063.

  7. R. Kobetić, V. Petrović Peroković, V. Ključarić, D. E. Sunko, Selective reduction of cyclohexanones with NaBH4 in β-CD, PEG-400 and micelles, Supramol. Chem. 40 (2007) 1-9.

List of select projects

Participation in research projects:

Projects founded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Republic of Croatia: „Synthesis and Enzymic Transformation of Biologically Active Compounds“ (S. Tomić-Pisarović, 2007-2013);  „Enzymic Transformation of Saccharides and Quinuclidines“ (S. Tomić-Pisarović, 2002-2006); ″Synthesis of polycyclic derivatives as potential inhibitors of TNF-″ (with Pliva Croatia d.d., S. Tomić-Pisarović, 1999-2002),  ″Synthesis of Amino Acids and Sugar Conjugates″ (head of the project, 1997-1999);  ″Synthesis of Saccharides and Antidotes for Organophosphorus Compounds″ (S. Tomić-Pisarović, 1996-2001).