Crystal Growth & Design, 2006

Reference: A. S. Filatov, A. Yu. Rogachev, M. A. Petrukhina "Gas-phase assembling of dirhodium units into a novel organometallic ladder: structural and DFT study" Cryst. Growth & Des., 2006, 6, 1479-1484. (ACS copyright.)

I used the first picture as a synopsis. The second one is slightly changed compared to the one published in the article. The idea of a "funnel" reaction is not mine, I've seen it before.
But I wanted to show that something is going inside that funnel and scientists are still trying to get closer to the understanding what exactly is going in the funnel. The perception process may going on forever but it does not make it much less interesting.

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Organometallics, 2006

Reference: M. A. Petrukhina, A. S. Filatov, Y. Sevryugina, K. W. Andreini, S. Takamizawa "Paracyclophanes as versatile pi-donor ligands directing formation of extended organometallic networks" Organometallics 2006, 25, 2135-2142. (ACS copyright.)

At some point of my research career I was working with a [2,2,2]paracyclophane molecule. I think it is a very interesting ligand for coordination studies. It has three benzene rings and thus a possibility to use 1, 2 or 3 of them for coordination to metal complexes forming a number of different possible frameworks.
What I like about this work is that we were able to selectively produce complexes using only one or two benzene rings by making careful choice of metal complexes and reaction conditions. And, of course, the 2D layered hexagonal network is just a beauty :)

Inorganic Chemistry, 2006

Reference: E. V. Dikarev, A. S. Filatov, R. Clérac, M. A Petrukhina "Unligated diruthenium(II,II) tetra(trifluoroacetate): The first X-ray structural study, thermal compressibility, lewis acidity, and magnetism" Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 744-751. (ACS copyright.)

Well, there is no much artistic work here. But I guess pictures made for table of contents are worth to store on this blog.

Ocean

Reference: unpublished

I didn't change anything in addition to what I have been able to produce using crystallographic programs. I just like this picture.

This is huge molecule having nanometer size and containing two different metals. I spent quite some time solving the structure. As my recent development, this is most probably wrong assignment of metal positions. But the picture itself is still OK :)

Dalton Transactions, 2004

Reference: E. V. Dikarev, V. V. Chernyshev, R. V. Shpanchenko, A. S. Filatov, M. A. Petrukhina "Bulk material vs. single crystal: powder diffraction to the rescue" Dalton Trans., 2004, 4120-4123. (RSC copyright.)

When I was working on the structure I also happened to see one of the "Star Wars" movies. That is why I used space-like style on this picture .

Dalton Transactions, 2007

Reference: A. Yu. Rogachev, Y. Sevryugina, A. S. Filatov, M. A. Petrukhina "Corannulene vs. C60-fullerene in metal binding reactions: A direct DFT and X-ray structural comparison" Dalton Trans., 2007, 3871-3873. (RSC copyright.)

I want to thank Alex Sikirzhitsky for helping me out with this project. Good luck to you Alex!

This black and white picture was taken from the article. It is kinda dull and boring.
I think, this is much more fun to look and enjoy.

Corannulene as an umbrella

Buckybowls

It happened that I worked a lot with buckybowls. Buckybowls are very close relatives of fullerenes, I'd say even their siblings :)
Corannulene is one of the smallest buckybowls. So, it is not surprising I used corannulene motif in a few pictures I made. Here are some molecules I worked with. For my experiments I synthesized corannulene and dibenzocorannulene myself and I'm very proud in that :)