Title: | Associate Professor |
Location: | 032 |
Public phone number: | +385 1 4606 370 |
Internal phone number: | 6370 |
E-mail: | |
Department: | Division of General and Inorganic Chemistry |
graduate
integrated undergraduate and graduate
Education at Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb: Diploma thesis (Teacher of physics and chemistry, 1985); Master degree thesis (Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, 1987); Doctoral thesis (Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, 1994).
Affiliation and current position: Associate professor, Division of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (2012-)
Previous positions: Assistant Professor (2001 – 2012); Senior Assistant (1996 -2001); Assistant (1985 – 1996), Division of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.
Research interest: X-ray crystallography of small molecules with potential pharmacological activity (derivatives of azithromycine, lorazepame...), organometallic compounds; X-ray powder diffraction; chemistry education research and practice
Scientific papers: co-author of 43 scientific and professional articles
Awards and recognitions and memberships:
Rector's award of the University of Zagreb for the year 1985
Memberships
(2004 - ) Committee for Teaching methods, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, member and head of the task group;
(2005-2024) State Matura in chemistry, National Centre for the External Evaluation of Education
(2004-2019 ) Member of the National Committee for Student's Competitions and Reviews in Chemistry (head 2012-2019), Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Republic of Croatia, Education and Teacher Training Agency of Croatia and Croatian Chemical Society;
Member of the Croatian Chemical Society, Croatian Association of Crystallographers
Participation in research projects:
Principal investigator:
Ministry of Science, Republic of Croatia project ''Evaluation, development and modernization of teaching and learning of chemistry in Croatia'' (2007–2010)
Project participant (Ministry of Science, Republic of Croatia projects; Croatian Science foundation):
2014 – 2019 ''Essential metal ions in Helicobacter pylori proteins and model compounds - structure and function/property''
2007 – 2013 ''Structural investigation of biological macromolecules by X-ray diffraction''
2002 – 2005 ''Development of new therapeutic and diagnostic substances for gene therapy of cancer''
Show publications in CRORIS
1. Djokić, S., Kobrehel, G., Lopotar, N., Kamenar, B., Nagl, A., Mrvoš, D.: Erythromycin Series. Part 13. Synthesis and structure elucidation of 10-dihydro-10- deoxo-11-methyl-11-azaerythromycin A, J. Chem. Research (S) (1988) 152-153, (M) (1988) 1239−1261.
2. S. Raić-Malić, L. Tomašković, D. Mrvoš-Sermek, B. Prugovečki, M. Cetina, M. Grdiša, K. Pavelić, A. Mannschreck, J. Balzarini, E. De Clercq and M. Mintas, Spirobipyridopyrans, spirobinaphthopyrans, indolinospiropyridopyrans indolinospironaphthopyrans and indolinospironaphtho-1,4-oxazines: synthesis, study X-ray crystal structure, antitumoral and antiviral evaluation, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 12 (2004) 1037–1045.
3. S. Šimičić, D. Mrvoš-Sermek, Identifying and Analyzing the Misconceptions Associated with the Concept of Chemical Equation, Croatian Journal of Education (CJE), 20 (2018) 111−131.
4. M. Tašner, D. Mrvoš-Sermek, E. Hajdarpašić, D. Matković-Čalogović, Dinuclear copper(II) acetate complex with caffeine, a fast mechanochemical synthesis, Contributions Sec. Nat. Math. Biotech. Sci. 39 (2018) 91−101.
5. M. Tašner, D. Vušak, I. Kekez, A. Gabud, V. Pilepić, D. Mrvoš-Sermek*, D. Matković-Čalogović *, Zn(II) halide coordination compounds with imidazole and 2-methylimidazole. Structural and computational characterization of intermolecular interactions and disorder, Heliyon, 2022, 8, e11100; DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11100