Nikolay N. Gerasimchuk
Missouri State UniversityUnited States
Biography
Prof. Gerasimchuk, after obtaining his first Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at Kiev State University (Ukraine) in 1985, held an assistant and then associate professor positions until 1992. After immigrating to the US he obtained his second Ph.D. in bioinorganic chemistry at the University of Kansas in 1996. He was a research associate at North Dakota State University in 1997-1998, and then at Pharmacyclics, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, where he became a research chemist and worked until August 2001. He accepted a position at Missouri State University, where he grew from assistant to full professor of inorganic chemistry in 2012. His research interests include synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, and medical-biological applications of oxime-based ligands and their metal complexes, more specifically Pd and Pt complexes as new cytotoxic agents against human cancers, and investigation of light-insensitive Ag(I) cyanoximates that represent thermally stable, water insoluble and antimicrobial coordination polymers. Methods of interests are the X-ray crystallography of small molecules, thermal analysis, and a variety of spectroscopic techniques. His list of publications contains 106 papers, two book chapters, as well as seven patents on application of studied compounds, and two editorials (Guest Editor) in a special edition of Current Inorganic Chemistry journal dedicated to oximes. During his teaching career in Ukraine and the USA two students earned their Ph.D. and 17 students earned their MS degrees.
Fields of Interest
- Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, and medical-biological applications of oxime-based ligands and their bivalent Pd and Pt complexes.
- Light-insensitive 2D coordination polymers based on Ag(I)-cyanoximates and their sensoric applications.
- Self-assembled nanosize 1D coordination polymers.
- X-ray crystallography of small molecules.