Research area:
New selective reactions of transition metal carbene, carbyne, and metallocumulene complexes and their derivatives directed to selective formation and cleavage of carbon-carbon, carbon-hydrogen, and carbon-heteroatom bonds.
The development of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for the heterometathesis reaction of carbonyl-containing organic compounds and various heterocumulenes (N-sulfinylamines, sulfur diamines, isocyanates etc.) based on oxo- and imido complexes of Group IV-VI transition metals. Development of the catalytic heterometathesis methodology.
Zwitter-ionic platinum group metal aminoiminophosphoranate complexes. Study of the features of their structures and their catalytic properties.
Current grants and contracts:
1. A grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Reasearch No. 08-03-00086 (2008-2010). Transition metal complexes with novel heteroatom NPN ligands as prospective homogeneous catalysts. Project leader: PhD, senior researcher A.M. Kalsin.
2. A grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Reasearch No. 08-03-00846 (2008-2010). The development of new methods for selective carbon-phosphorous bond formation based on reactions of transition metal phosphoniocarbene and phosphoniovinyl complexes. Project leader: D.Sc., Professor N.A. Ustynyuk.
3. The project "Reactions of the manganese vinylidene and allenylidene complexes with phosphorus nucleophiles containing phosphorus-oxygen bonds" as a part of the Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Development of synthetic methods for new chemicals and new materials", Subprogram "Direct synthesis of substances with prescribed properties and formation of useful materials on their basis" (coordinator: Academician Bubnov Yu.N.).. Project leader: D.Sc., Professor N.A. Ustynyuk.
4. FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008 N 909423
The development of novel type chiral homogeneous catalysts formed as a result of self-organization of the achiral active site and the chiral inductor for asymmetric synthesis in aqueous solutions. Project leader: PhD, senior researcher A. M. Kalsin
5. Contract with OJSC "SIBUR Holding" (2010-2011)
Contract No. 8410 "Preparation of Styrene-Butadiene Rubber having functional groups in the chain by the radically initiated hydrothiolation reaction".
Contract No. 8411 "Preparation of Butadiene Rubber having functional groups in the chain by the carbo- and hydroalumination reactions".
Leader: PhD, senior researcher D.N. Zarubin.
Main publications in 2008-2010:
1. D.N. Zarubin, A.A. Zhizhin, N.A. Ustynyuk. An imido-transfer reaction of aldehydes with RNSO using vanadium and molybdenum oxochlorides as catalysts. Tetrahedron letters 2008, 49, 699-702.
2. D.A. Valyaev, N. Lugan, G. Lavigne, N.A. Ustynyuk. “Generation of α-Phosphinocarbene Complexes and Their Evolution: New Light on Relevant Isomerization Pathways”, Organometallics, 2008, 27, 5180-5183.
3. O.V. Gusev, T.A. Peganova, A.V. Gonchar, P.V. Petrovskii, K.A. Lyssenko, N.A. Ustynyuk. “Synthesis of diaminophosphonium salts [Ph2(ArNH)2P]+Br-
(Ar = o-MeC6H4, p-MeC6H4, p-PriC6H4, p-EtO2CC6H4, p-MeOC6H4”. Phosphorus, Sulfur, Silicon, and the related elements 2009, 184, 322-331.
4. T.A. Peganova, A.V. Valyaeva, A.M. Kalsin, P.V. Petrovskii, A.O. Borissova, K.A. Lyssenko, N.A. Ustynyuk “Synthesis of aminoiminophosphoranate complexes of palladium and platinum and X-ray diffractional studies of the weak C-H…Pd interactions affecting the geometry of the PdNPN metallocycles”. Organometallics 2009, 28, 3021-3028.
5. A.A. Zhizhin, D.N. Zarubin, N.A. Ustynyuk, Molybdenum-mediated imido-transfer reaction of N-sulfynylamines with dimethylformamide, Mendeleev Commun., 2009, 19, 165-166
6. I.D. Grishin, V.V. Krivykh, A.A. Shchepalov, E.S. Taits, N.A. Ustynyuk, D.F. Grishin, Stable 17e manganese complexes in the synthesis of macromolecules. Izv. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Khim., 2009, 1808-1813; Russ. Chem. Bull., Int. Ed., 2009, 1866-1871.
7. V.V. Krivykh, I.V. Glukhov, Cationic η3-butadienyl complexes of chromium and manganese, Mendeleev Commun., 2010, 20, 177-179.
8. V.V. Krivykh, D.A. Valyaev, K.I. Utegenov, A.M. Mazhuga, E.S. Taits, O.V. Semeikin, P.V. Petrovskii, I.V. Glukhov, N.A. Ustynyuk, Protonation of Zwitter-Ionic Manganese and Rhenium Phosphoniostyryl Complexes (η5-C5H5)(CO)2M––C(+PR3)=C(H)Ph: Experimental and DFT Study, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201000868