Division of General and Inorganic Chemistry

At the Division of General and Inorganic Chemistry, research is conducted in the fields of solid-state chemistry of organic and organometallic compounds, supramolecular chemistry, as well as the chemistry of proteins and other biologically active compounds. Using classical synthetic procedures, organic compounds such as diketones, triketones, Schiff bases and amino acid derivatives are prepared and used either as building blocks for multicomponent crystals or as ligands in the synthesis of coordination compounds with metals, including coordination polymers, polyoxometalate species and hybrid metal–organic systems. The resulting coordination compounds are used to investigate catalytic processes and to study correlations between their (molecular and crystal) structures and their catalytic, biological or metalloenzymatic activity. Coordination polymers are also employed to explore specific structural features and intermolecular interactions, and their influence on mechanical properties of crystals such as flexibility under external mechanical stimuli. Within solid-state chemistry, mechanochemical synthesis of organic and organometallic solids is studied, as well as the influence of non-covalent intermolecular interactions (hydrogen and halogen bonding) on molecular recognition and on the structure and properties of molecular crystals. The development of supramolecular synthesis methods enables crystal engineering of single- and multicomponent systems, including cocrystallization and polymorphism. As part of the Division’s teaching activities, methods and methodologies for chemistry education are also developed.

Research activities of academic staff

Dominik Cinčić

Mechanochemical synthesis of organic and organometallic compounds; solid-state supramolecular chemistry

Marijana Đaković

Small-molecule crystallography; mechanical properties of crystals; solid-state supramolecular chemistry; crystal engineering; crystallization; spectroscopic and thermal characterization of molecular solids

Ivica Đilović

X-ray structural analysis of small molecules and biological macromolecules; anion receptor chemistry; metal–organic frameworks and coordination polymers

Nenad Judaš

Crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry

Ivana Kekez

Structural studies of biological macromolecules (protein–protein complexes, protein–ligand complexes, metalloproteins) and coordination compounds of essential metals with amino acids and their derivatives

Draginja Mrvoš-Sermek

X-ray structural analysis of small organic molecules; chemistry teaching methodology; chemistry outreach and popularization

Vinko Nemec

Synthesis of organic and organometallic compounds; solvent-free synthesis; intermolecular interactions

Jana Pisk

Synthesis, characterization and investigation of catalytic properties of organic, coordination and polyoxometalate compounds

Biserka Prugovečki

Synthesis; structural analysis; study of properties of coordination compounds of essential metals with biologically important ligands; crystallization and structural characterization of biological macromolecules

Mirta Rubčić

Synthesis, study of properties and structural characterization of organic, coordination and polyoxometalate compounds

Željka Soldin

Coordination chemistry of Group 12 and 3d-block metals – synthesis and characterization

Vladimir Stilinović

Intermolecular interactions; proton transfer; phase transitions and solid-state supramolecular chemistry; history of chemistry

Višnja Vrdoljak

Synthesis and identification of metal supramolecular compounds of molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium and copper, and hybrid polyoxometalates including functionalized clusters

Darko Vušak

Solution and mechanochemical synthesis and structural analysis of discrete and multidimensional coordination compounds; investigation of structure–property relationships in solid-state materials

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Division of General and Inorganic Chemistry

Research activities of academic staff

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Department of Chemistry