Vladimir State University

The consortium consists of four European universities, led by the University of Genoa, Italy, and eleven Russian universities MUCTR of Russia, Tambov State Technical University, Vladimir State University, B. Yeltsin Ural Federal University and others some associated partners representing businesses and organizations from different regions are also involved. 

Vladimir I. Minkin (157), Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry, Rostov State University, 344090 Rostov-on-Don, Russia... 

We thank our institution, the Vienna University of Technology, for providing the facilities and time to write this book. Part of this book was written during a stay of Peter Filzmoser at the Belarusian State University in Minsk. We thank The Austrian Research Association for the mobility program MOEL and the Belarusian State University for their support, from the latter especially Vasily Strazhev, Vladimir Tikhonov, Pavel Mandrik, Yuriy Kharin, and Alexey Kharin. 

Vladimir M. Egorov was born in Odintsovo-10, Moscow Region, Russia, in 1982. He received his MS in chemistry from Moscow State University in 2005. The subject of his diploma thesis was to develop a method of analytical reagents immobilization on cellulose matrix by dissolution or reconstitution using ionic liquids. Currently, he is a postgraduate student at the MSU Chemistry Department. His research interests include (but not limited to) application and synthesis of novel ionic liquids and computational chemistry. He has been a prize-winner of numerous contests in chemistry, mathematics, and biology. 

Vladimir Katovic Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio... 

Vasiliy Bakulev was bom in Ekaterinburg, Russia. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1979, under the guidance of Prof. Vladimir Mokrushin, on the synthesis of imidazole derivatives. Then he studied electrocyclic reactions of diazocompounds and azomethyneylides and, in 1990, defended the second thesis of Doctor of Science (similar to Habilitation Degree) at Moscow State University. He received a diploma of Professor in 1998. Jointly with Wim Dehaen, he published a book on the chemistry of 1,2,3-thiadiazoles in 2004. He is currently professor at the Organic Synthesis and Technology Department of the Urals State Technical University (Ekaterinburg, Russia). 

Vladimir A. Yerokhin, St. Petersburg State University, 198904 St. Petersburg, Russia, yerokhin0fn.csa.ru... 

Vladimir I. Gorshkov Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia... 

The results discussed have been obtained in collaboration with V.A. Kabanov of Moscow State University. The authors would like to appreciate the contribution of late Professor Vladimir Smetanyuk. 

Vladimir M. Gun ko, DSc, is a professor and head of the Department of Amorphous and Structurally Ordered Oxides, Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He graduated in theoretical physics from Dnipropetrovsk State University (DSU) in 1973 and received his PhD in chemistry from the Institute of Physical-Organic Chemistry (IPOC), Kiev, in 1983 and his DSc in physics, chemistry, and technology of surface from the Institute of Surface Chemistry (ISC) in 1995. He currently serves as professor of physics and chemistry of surface at ISC, where he has been since 1985. He has been elected Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Brighton (United Kingdom), 2010-2011. He has coauthored three books, edited one book, published about 400 papers, and made about 200 presentations at conferences. He also serves on the editorial board of four journals and Surface, a periodic book published one to two times per year. He is a member of the American Nano Society (the United States) and an electronic member of The Royal Society of Chemistry (the United Kingdom). 

Peter T. Bell, Tarleton State University Vladimir Benin, University of Dayton Paul J. Birckbichler, Slippery Rode University Simon Bott, University of Houston Kevin A. Boudreaux, Angelo State University R. D. Braun, University of Louisiana, Lafayette... 

Vladimir V. Tsukruk, EDITOR Iowa State University... 

Vladimir L. Rusinov (261), Department of Organic Chemistry, Urals State Technical University, Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia, e-mail rusinov htf.ustu.ru... 

Vladimir Golovko, Pavel Kochurko Brest State Technical University, Moskovskaja str. 267, 224017 Brest, Belarus, gva bstu.by... 

Tobin J. Marks (NAS) is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor and Vladimir N. Iptieff Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. Through landmark synthetic, mechanistic, and thermodynamic investigations, he and his students opened a new portion of the Periodic Table to organometallic chemistry. He has also made major advances in solid state, polymer, bioinorganic, and boron hydride chemistry and in photochemical isotope separation. He received his B.S. from the University of Maryland and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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