Laboratory of Photochemistry
Chair of Chemical Kinetics
Department of Chemistry
Moscow State University
Moscow
117234, Russia
tel +7(095)939-10-12
fax +7(095)932-88-46
e-mail:
solntsev@kuzmin.chem.msu.su
1.8 Marital Status: Married, two children
2. ACADEMIC
- 1986 - 1991 Studied chemistry at Moscow State University (Department of Chemistry)
- June, 1991 M.S., Chemistry, Moscow State University
Title of diploma paper: "Kinetics of photoprotolytic reactions of lipophylic derivatives of 1- and 2-naphthol in homogeneous and micellar solutions"
supervised by Dr. Yu.V.Ilichev.
- 1991 - 1994. Postgraduate at Department of
Chemistry, Moscow State University
- September, 1996 PhD, Chemistry, Moscow State University
Title of Ph.D: "Kinetics of excited-state proton-transfer
reactions of
lipophylic hydroxyaromatic compounds in microheterogeneous systems" Supervised by prof.M.G.Kuzmin
- 1994 - present. Junior researcher at Department of
Chemistry, Moscow State University
3. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- 1991-1992. Teaching Assistant, Moscow State University, Dept. of
Chemistry. Assisted in practical work on Fluorescence
Spectroscopy, Kinetics of Fluorescence.
- 1993-1994 Supervised 5 student projects: in Organic Chemistry -
Synthesis of 1) o- and p-ethyl 1-hydroxynaphthalenes; 2)
w-(6-hydroxy-naphthyl-2)-decanoic acid; 3) dodecyldimethyl-(5-hydroxynaphthyl-1)-ammonium bromide.
- in Physical Chemistry - 1) Comparative study of protolytic dissociation of 1-naphthol and 2-octadecyl-1-naphthol in homogeneous in micellar solutions; 2) Fluorescence investigation of the hydrolysis of some peptides.
4. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Moscow State
University,
Dept. of Chemistry,
Lab. of Photochemistry,
November 1991 - Present
Advisor: Professor Michael G. Kuzmin
Acid-base lipophylic fluorescent probes were synthesized. Fluorescent spectroscopy and single-photon counting method (nanosecond resolution) are being used to investigate kinetics of excited-state proton transfer reactions in organized
surfactant assemblies.
University of
Helsinki,
Dept. of Physical Chemistry,
Lab. of Photochemistry,
Helsinki, Finland.
November - December, 1993
Kinetics of excited-state proton transfer reactions in
vesicles and LB-films were investigated using single-photon
counting method with picosecond resolution were studied in the
laboratory of the Associated Professor Helge Lemmetyinen.
New York University
Dept. of Chemistry
Radiation and Solid State Laboratory
New York
City
February-August, 1995
Covalent adducts of polynuclear aromatic compounds with DNA were
synthesized, HPLC purified and characterized by various optical
methods in the Laboratory of the Professor Nicholas Geacintov. Mechanism of
fluorescence quenching
of aromatic hydrocarbons by nucleic acid bases was investigated
by steady- state and time-resolved fluorescence techniques in NYU
Laser Laboratory of the professor Scott Courtney.
5. OTHER
Married to Anna D. Solntseva, currently a student of the Moscow
Section of Jewish Theological Seminary of
America (JTSA) & YIVO (New
York). She was invited to study in Jan-June 1995 in New York City.
Hobbies: Rock Music: Aquarium and "Aquarium"
Life Style - MIT'KI,
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6. RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
- 6.1 Yu.V. Ilichev, K.M. Solntsev, A.B. Demyashkevich, M.G. Kuzmin "Dynamics of the fast proton trjansfer across lipid-water interface" Cytology, 1990, v.32, No 9, p.932.
- 6.2 Yu.V. Ilichev, K.M. Solntsev, A.B. Demyashkevich, M.G.
Kuzmin, H. Lemmetyinen, E.Vuorimaa "Excited-State Proton Transfer
Reactions of Long-Chain Derivatives of Naphthols in Solutions and
Langmuir-Blodgett Films" Chem.
Phys. Letters (1992) v.193, p.128- 133.
- 6.3 K.M. Solntsev, Yu.V. Il'ichev, A.B. Demyashkevich, M.G. Kuzmin "Excited-State Proton Transfer Reactions of Substituted Naphthols in Micelles. Comparative Study of Reactions of 2- Naphthol and its Long-Chain Alkyl Derivatives
in Micellar solutions of Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide" Journal of Photochemstry and Photobiology, A:Chem. (1994) v.78, p.39-48.
- 6.4 Yu.V. Il'ichev, K.M. Solntsev, M.G. Kuzmin, H. Lemmetyinen "Effects of Surfactant Charge and Structure on Excited-State Protolytic Dissociation of 1-Naphthol in Vesicles" J. Chem. Soc. Farad.Trans. (1994) v.90, p.2717-2724.
- 6.5 K.M.Solntsev, Yu V. Ilichev, A.B. Demyashkevich, M.G. Kuzmin "Excited-State Proton Transfer Reactions of Substituted Naphthols in Micelles. Comparative Study of Reactions of 1- Naphthol and its Long-Chain Alkyl Derivatives
in Micellar solutions of Ionic (CTAB, SDS) and Non-ionic (Brij-35,
Triton X- 100) Surfactants" in preparation for "Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A:"
- 6.6 K.M. Solntsev, S.H. Courtney, N.E. Geacintov "Steady- state and time-resolved studies of mechanism of benzo[a]pyrene tetraol fluorescence quenching by nucleic acid bases. The role of pH and H/D isotope effect" in preparation for "
Journal of Physical Chemistry".
- 6.7 Yu.V. Ilichev, K.M. Solntsev, A.B. Demyashkevich, M.G. Kuzmin "Dynamics of Excited-state proton transfer reactions of naphthol long-chain derivatives in micellar solution" in Abstracts of 14-th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry,
Leuven, Belgium, 1992, p.238-239.
- 6.8 K.M. Solntsev, Yu.V. Ilichev, A.B. Demyashkevich, M.G.
Kuzmin "Excited-state proton transfer reactions in molecular organized systems. Influence of long-chain substitutes on photodissociation of naphthols" in Abstracts of International
Conference on Photochemistry of C.I.S. (in Russian), Kiev, Ukraine,
1992, p.72.
- 6.9 K.M. Solntsev, Yu.V. Ilichev, M.G. Kuzmin "Dynamics of intra- and intermolecular excited-state proton-transfer reaction of w-hydroxynaphthyl-decanoic acids in micellar solutions" in Abstracts of XVI International Conference
on Photochemistry, Vancouver,
Canada,
1993 p.469.
- 6.10 M.G. Kuzmin, K.M. Solntsev, Yu.V. Ilichev "Effects of
localization of hydroxyaromatic compounds in micelles on their
excited-state proton transfer reactions" in Abstracts of 15-th
IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Prague,
Czech
Republic, 1994, p.93.