42nd IUPAC Council Meeting
Nominee for Bureau
Oleg
Nefedov (Russia)
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| Oleg Nefedov
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Prof. Nefedov is a well-known organic chemist with special interests
in physical organic chemistry, small-ring chemistry, organic synthesis,
and organometallic chemistry. He is one of the founders of the modern
chemistry of carbenes and their Group 14 element analogs. His first
review published in this area in Angewandte Chemie in 1966 actually
initiated the development of this new field of organometallic chemistry.
Another area of his research activities is related to the chemistry
of diazocompounds, cyclopropanes, and cyclopropenes. Prof. Nefedov has
also developed a new approach to the introduction of fluorine into aromatic
rings.
Education and Career
Nefedov pursued his graduate studies at the Mendeleev Institute
of Chemical Technology, Moscow. In 1967 he received a Doctor of Sciences
(Organic Chemistry) from the N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry,
Moscow. From 1957 to 1968, he was a research scientist at the Zelinsky
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow. Between 1959 and 1960, he held
a postdoctoral fellowship at Heidelburg University, Germany and from
1965 to 1966 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Free University in
Brussels, Belgium. In 1968 he became professor of chemistry and head
of the Laboratory of Carbene and Small-Ring Chemistry at the Zelinsky
Institute. In 1987, Nefedov was made a full member of the USSR Academy
of Sciences, subsequently the Russian Academy of Sciences. He later
became vice president of the Academy and academician-secretary of its
Division of General and Technical Chemistry. Since 1990, he has been
chairman of the Russian Academy of Sciences Higher Chemical College,
and since 1996 he has been chairman of the National Committee of Russian
Chemists. He has also been a visiting professor in the USA, Japan, France,
and Germany.
IUPAC Involvement
Currently Prof. Nefedov is an elected member of the IUPAC Bureau
(2000—2003) and its Executive Committee (2001—2003). He serves
as a member of the Evaluation Committee for IUPAC projects as well.
Since 1996 he has been the chairman of the National Committee of Russian
Chemists for IUPAC. He was also a titular (1981—91) and associate
(1991—93) member of the Commission on Physical Organic Chemistry.
Since 1981 he has regularly participated in all IUPAC General Assemblies
and in many IUPAC and other international conferences.
Related Professional Activities
Nefedov is editor-in-chief of a number of journals, namely,
Mendeleev Communications, Russian Chemical Bulletin (Izvestiya
Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, and the Russian Chemical
Reviews (Uspekhi khimii). He has authored numerous scientific
papers and books on organic and physical chemistry, chemical aspects
of ecology, and social problems of science.
Awards
Among the many honors that Nefedov has received are the USSR
State Prize, Moscow, 1983 and 1990; Zelinsky Prize, Moscow, 1987; Prize
of the USSR and Hungarian Academies of Sciences, Moscow, 1988; Semenov
Prize, Moscow, 1991; Karpinsky Hamburg, 1993; and D. I. Mendeleev Gold
Medal, Moscow, 1998; and the Russian State Prize in Science and Technology,
2002.
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