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Name: Elena V. Rybak-Akimova
Title: Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Departmental Affiliation: Chemistry Department
Degrees: Ph.D., 1987 Pisarzhevsky Institute, Ukranian Academy of Sciences (Ukraine); M.Sc., 1983 Shevchenko University (Ukraine); Postdoctoral, 1993 University of Kansas
Expertise: Inorganic Chemistry
Supramolecular Chemistry

Synthetic macrocyclic transition metal complexes; molecular tweezers; redox catalysis and enzyme mimics; dioxygen binding and activation; spatio-temporal self-organization (oscillating reactions and pattern formation).
E-mail: elena.rybak-akimova@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://chem.tufts.edu/faculty/rybak-akimova/index.html
Scholarship & Research: J.J. Wang., O.P. Kryatova, E.V. Rybak-Akimova, R.H.Holm, “Comparative kinetics and mechanism of oxygen and sulfur atom transfer reactions mediated by bis(dithiolene) complexes of molybdenum and tungsten”, Inorg. Chem., 2004, 42, 8092-8101.

Sonia Taktak, Sergey V. Kryatov, and Elena V. Rybak-Akimova, “Reactivity of a (µ-Oxo)( µ-hydroxo)diiron(III) Diamond Core with Water, Urea, Substituted Ureas, and Acetamide, Inorg. Chem., 2004-43, 7196-7209.

Ivan V. Korendovych, Richard J. Staples, William M. Reiff, and Elena V. Rybak-Akimova, “A New High-Spin Iron(III) Complex with a Pentatentate Macrocyclic Amidopyridine Ligand: A Change from Slow Single-Ion Paramagnetic Relaxation to Long-Range Antiferromagnetic Order in a Hydrogen-Bonded Network”, Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 3930-3941.

Frances H. Stephens, Joshua S. Figueroa, Christoer C. Cummins, Olga P. Kryatova, Sergey V. Kryatov, Elena V. Rybak-Akimova, J. Erick McDonough and Carl D. Hoff, “Small-Molecule Activation by Molybdaziridine Hydride Complexes: Mechanistic Sequence of the Small-Molecule Binding and Molybdaziridine Ring-Opening Steps”., Organometallics, 2004, 23, 3126-3138.

Olga P. Kryatova, Ivan V. Korendovych and Elena V. Rybak-Akimova, “Complexes of benzo-15-crown-5 with protonated primary amines and diamines”, Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, 4579-4588.

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