Nikolai Serafimovich Zefirov

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY DIVISION
LABORATORY OF ORGANIC SYNTHESIS

COURSE: ORGANIC SYNTHESIS
COURSE: STEREOCHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
COURSE: MATHEMATICAL CHEMISTRY AND COMPUTER SYNTHESIS

OCCUPATION: Academician, Professor, Head of organic chemistry division. Graduated from Moscow State University (1958); Ph.D. (1961); Dr.Sci. (1965); Professor (1973); Corresponding Member (1981) and Full Member (1987) of Russian Academy of Science. Lomonosov Prize (1985). State Award (1989). Butlerov Prize (1994).

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS: organic synthesis, physical organic chemistry, mathematical chemistry and computer synthesis, mechanisms of chemical reactions.

PHONE: (095) 939-1620
E-mail: zefirov@synth.chem.msu.su

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

T.S. Kuznetsova, O.V. Eremenko, O.V. Kokoreva, G.V. Zatonsky and N.S. Zefirov.

Synthesis of cyclo-substituted triangulanes with four and five spiroannulated three-membered rings by sequential peripheral cyclopropanation of cyclooctene. Mendeleev Comm., N 5, 172 (1994).

N.S. Zefirov, T.S. Kuznetsova, O.V. Eremenko, O.V. Kokoreva, G.V. Zatonsky and B.I. Ugrak.

Sequential peripheral cyclopropanation as synthetic approach to cyclic and cyclosubstituted triangulanes. J.Org.Chem. 59, 1509 (1994).

N.S. Zefirov, S.R. Agapova, P.B. Terentyev, I.M. Balachova, N.I. Vasynkova and L.M. Modyanova.

Degradation of piridine by Arthrobacter crystallopoints and Rhodococcus opacusstrains. FEMS Microbiol.Letters 118, 71 (1994).

I.I. Baskin, V.A. Palyulin and N.S. Zefirov.

SYMBEQ program and its application in computer-assisted reaction design. J.Chem.Inf.Comput.Sci. 34, 994 (1994).