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Biosketch – Special issue on Organometallic Chemistry of the Main Group Elements
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Biosketch – Special issue on Organometallic Chemistry of the Main Group Elements
Vladimir I. Bregadze Professor Vladimir I. Bregadze was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1938 to a Russian mother Agnessa Bazhenova, who graduated from Medical University in Moscow, and a Georgian father Iosif Bregadze, who came to Moscow after graduating from the Medical University in Baku (Azerbaijan). Both parents were surgeons, his mother was an oncology specialist and his father was well known for liver surgery. Vladimir has an older brother born in 1935. Vladimir received his undergraduate education in Chemistry graduating in 1960 from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and he received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 1967 from A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organo-Element Compounds of the USSR Academy of Sciences (INEOS-USSR/RAS) under the directions of Professor L.I. Zakharkin and Professor O. Yu. Okhlobystin. As part of his Ph.D. work, Vladimir Bregadze synthesized, isolated and characterized the first organometallic derivatives of the carborane cage, C2B10H12. After postdoctoral research involving electrochemical and ESR studies of carboranes and their metalla-derivatives in Professor Raymond Dessy’s laboratory at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1969 to 1970, Dr. Bregadze returned to Moscow to become a Senior Scientific Researcher at INEOS-RAS from 1971 to 1988 during which time he received his D. Sc degree (1986) leading to his appointment as a full Professor of Chemistry in 1990. Subsequently, he became the Head of the Laboratory of Organoaluminum and Organoboron Compounds at INEOS-RAS, a position he still holds. In 1976, Dr. Bregadze received the USSR State Prize for the development and application of new materials for industry and, in 1996, he was awarded a Russian Federation’s State Prize in Science and 0022-328X/$ – see front matter Ó 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2013.07.008
Technology for “Chemistry of Carboranes and Polyhedral Boranes”. This is one of the highest Russian scientific awards. For these achievements, he was elected to a highly prestigious Membership of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Professor Bregadze’s fields of interest are organic and inorganic derivatives of boron and some main-group elements, chemistry of polyhedral boranes and carboranes and the study of their reactivity and applications in medicine (antitumor activity, boron– neutron capture therapy (BNCT), etc.) and for design of new materials for electronic industries. Thus, he has developed new synthetic techniques for organic derivatives of gallium, indium, arsenic, selenium and tellurium as precursors for the preparation of semiconductor materials by chemical vapor deposition. He has published over 400 papers in leading scientific journals and made the list of Russian Scientists with citation index of more than 2284. Since 1964, Vladimir Bregadze has significantly developed the area of metallacarboranes by demonstrating unusual features of the carborane clusters and he has published extensively through articles, communications and reviews in prestigious national and international journals. While he was the head of a scientific team at INEOS-USSR/RAS, he discovered a route for direct metalation of carboranes to produce a new class of compounds – boron-metalated carboranes (together with Vladimir Kampel and Alexander Usyatinsky) which differ from the same type of boron organometallics, but have properties similar to those in which the B–M bond plays the role of the C–M bond found in normal organometallic species. Concurrently, he worked on organometallic compounds for the creation of semiconductor materials that could be protected with boron containing coatings. In collaboration with Ludmila Golubinskaya, he developed direct methods of synthesis for pristine organo-derivatives of gallium, indium and other metals, which were later developed for industrial applications. Many of his recent research accomplishments have been in the area of BNCT and he has thus become a premier Russian cancer researcher, following in his mother’s footsteps. Dr. Bregadze’s accomplishments in main-group and transition metal-containing boron chemistry, including metallaboranes and metallacarboranes, boron science and its applications in medicine and materials science are such that he has been invited to present many lectures on these topics at international meetings, conferences, workshops and symposia. Interestingly, he has been the only scientist to have attended every single international meeting on boron (IMEBORON) and EUROBORON since their inception. He has active international collaboration with scientists at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium), Uppsala University (Sweden), Bremen University (Germany), University of California – Los Angeles
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(USA), Northern Illinois University (USA), Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic), Institute of Medical Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland), Institute of Chemistry and Materials of Barcelona (Spain), Universities of Dijon and Toulouse (France), Bhabha Atomic Research Center – Mumbai (India), Nanjing University and Peking University of Chemical Technology (China) and Istanbul Technical University (Turkey). He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Peking University of Chemical Technology. All of this qualifies him to be an International Professor of Boron Science! He is a member of many international scientific societies, committees, advisory boards, etc. Professor Bregadze was a co-founder and the executive secretary of the Russian journal – Metalloorganicheskaya Khimia – (English translation: Organometallic Chemistry in the USSR) from 1987 to 1993. He has been a member of the editorial board of many international journals, including Organome-
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tallics (1992–1994), Inorganic Chemistry (1997–1999), Applied Organometallic Chemistry (2003–2007), Main Group Chemistry (current), Russian Chemical Bulletin (current) and he is an Associate Editor of the newly established open-access journal – Biochemical and Biophysical Journal of Neutron Therapy and Cancer Treatments (BBJNTCT). Richard D. Adams University of South Carolina, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 631 Sumter Street, Columbia, SC 29208, United States Narayan S. Hosmane, Guest Editor* Northern Illinois University, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 1425 W. Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60115-2828, United States * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected]
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jorganchem
Biosketch – Special issue on Organometallic Chemistry of the Main Group Elements
Vladimir I. Bregadze Professor Vladimir I. Bregadze was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1938 to a Russian mother Agnessa Bazhenova, who graduated from Medical University in Moscow, and a Georgian father Iosif Bregadze, who came to Moscow after graduating from the Medical University in Baku (Azerbaijan). Both parents were surgeons, his mother was an oncology specialist and his father was well known for liver surgery. Vladimir has an older brother born in 1935. Vladimir received his undergraduate education in Chemistry graduating in 1960 from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and he received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 1967 from A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organo-Element Compounds of the USSR Academy of Sciences (INEOS-USSR/RAS) under the directions of Professor L.I. Zakharkin and Professor O. Yu. Okhlobystin. As part of his Ph.D. work, Vladimir Bregadze synthesized, isolated and characterized the first organometallic derivatives of the carborane cage, C2B10H12. After postdoctoral research involving electrochemical and ESR studies of carboranes and their metalla-derivatives in Professor Raymond Dessy’s laboratory at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1969 to 1970, Dr. Bregadze returned to Moscow to become a Senior Scientific Researcher at INEOS-RAS from 1971 to 1988 during which time he received his D. Sc degree (1986) leading to his appointment as a full Professor of Chemistry in 1990. Subsequently, he became the Head of the Laboratory of Organoaluminum and Organoboron Compounds at INEOS-RAS, a position he still holds. In 1976, Dr. Bregadze received the USSR State Prize for the development and application of new materials for industry and, in 1996, he was awarded a Russian Federation’s State Prize in Science and 0022-328X/$ – see front matter Ó 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2013.07.008
Technology for “Chemistry of Carboranes and Polyhedral Boranes”. This is one of the highest Russian scientific awards. For these achievements, he was elected to a highly prestigious Membership of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Professor Bregadze’s fields of interest are organic and inorganic derivatives of boron and some main-group elements, chemistry of polyhedral boranes and carboranes and the study of their reactivity and applications in medicine (antitumor activity, boron– neutron capture therapy (BNCT), etc.) and for design of new materials for electronic industries. Thus, he has developed new synthetic techniques for organic derivatives of gallium, indium, arsenic, selenium and tellurium as precursors for the preparation of semiconductor materials by chemical vapor deposition. He has published over 400 papers in leading scientific journals and made the list of Russian Scientists with citation index of more than 2284. Since 1964, Vladimir Bregadze has significantly developed the area of metallacarboranes by demonstrating unusual features of the carborane clusters and he has published extensively through articles, communications and reviews in prestigious national and international journals. While he was the head of a scientific team at INEOS-USSR/RAS, he discovered a route for direct metalation of carboranes to produce a new class of compounds – boron-metalated carboranes (together with Vladimir Kampel and Alexander Usyatinsky) which differ from the same type of boron organometallics, but have properties similar to those in which the B–M bond plays the role of the C–M bond found in normal organometallic species. Concurrently, he worked on organometallic compounds for the creation of semiconductor materials that could be protected with boron containing coatings. In collaboration with Ludmila Golubinskaya, he developed direct methods of synthesis for pristine organo-derivatives of gallium, indium and other metals, which were later developed for industrial applications. Many of his recent research accomplishments have been in the area of BNCT and he has thus become a premier Russian cancer researcher, following in his mother’s footsteps. Dr. Bregadze’s accomplishments in main-group and transition metal-containing boron chemistry, including metallaboranes and metallacarboranes, boron science and its applications in medicine and materials science are such that he has been invited to present many lectures on these topics at international meetings, conferences, workshops and symposia. Interestingly, he has been the only scientist to have attended every single international meeting on boron (IMEBORON) and EUROBORON since their inception. He has active international collaboration with scientists at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium), Uppsala University (Sweden), Bremen University (Germany), University of California – Los Angeles
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(USA), Northern Illinois University (USA), Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic), Institute of Medical Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland), Institute of Chemistry and Materials of Barcelona (Spain), Universities of Dijon and Toulouse (France), Bhabha Atomic Research Center – Mumbai (India), Nanjing University and Peking University of Chemical Technology (China) and Istanbul Technical University (Turkey). He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Peking University of Chemical Technology. All of this qualifies him to be an International Professor of Boron Science! He is a member of many international scientific societies, committees, advisory boards, etc. Professor Bregadze was a co-founder and the executive secretary of the Russian journal – Metalloorganicheskaya Khimia – (English translation: Organometallic Chemistry in the USSR) from 1987 to 1993. He has been a member of the editorial board of many international journals, including Organome-
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tallics (1992–1994), Inorganic Chemistry (1997–1999), Applied Organometallic Chemistry (2003–2007), Main Group Chemistry (current), Russian Chemical Bulletin (current) and he is an Associate Editor of the newly established open-access journal – Biochemical and Biophysical Journal of Neutron Therapy and Cancer Treatments (BBJNTCT). Richard D. Adams University of South Carolina, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 631 Sumter Street, Columbia, SC 29208, United States Narayan S. Hosmane, Guest Editor* Northern Illinois University, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 1425 W. Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60115-2828, United States * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected]