Department of Chemistry of Macromolecular Compounds (archive)

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY OF HIGH MOLECULAR COMPOUNDS

S.V. Lebedev

The Department of Chemistry of Macromolecular Compounds was organized in 1946 on the basis of the laboratory named after S.V. Lebedev. Its first head from 1946 to 1950 was Professor Stepan Nikolaevich Danilov. From 1950 to 1973, the department was headed by a student of Sergei Vasilievich Lebedev, Professor, Doctor of Chemical Sciences Anastasia Iosifovna Yakubchik. The activities of the department during these years were largely associated with the problems of synthetic rubber.

From 1973 to 1983, the department was headed by Professor, Doctor of Chemical Sciences Boris Ivanovich Tikhomirov. His untimely death at the age of 50 prevented him from realizing many ideas that have not lost their relevance to this day. From 1983 to 1990, the head of the department was Professor, Doctor of Chemical Sciences Vyacheslav Sergeevich Ivanov, who made a significant contribution to the development of radiation chemistry of polymers. In 1990, Alexander Yurievich Bilibin, professor, doctor of chemical sciences, who heads the department at the present time, was elected head of the department.

A.Yu. Bilibin

The department consists of two structural divisions:

laboratory of polymer chemistry
Head - Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor A.Yu. Bilibin

Laboratory of Radiation Chemistry of Polymers
Head - Senior Researcher, Candidate of Chemical Sciences Irina Ivanovna Migunova.

The department actively cooperates with other departments of the faculty and scientific institutes of St. Petersburg. By the decisions of the scientific councils of the UNCC St. Petersburg State University and the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, a joint educational and scientific laboratory of both organizations was formed. This makes it possible for a small team of the department (less than 20 people) to conduct full-fledged scientific research in a number of topical areas of chemistry of macromolecular compounds. The main directions of scientific research of the department are connected with the synthesis and research of new types of macromolecular compounds of various functional purposes.

The department has several scientific groups representing the main scientific areas developed by the department:

Group for the synthesis and study of antioxidants and other biologically active substances immobilized on polymeric carriers.
Supervisor - Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor Domnina Nina Semenovna
room 1208, tel. 428-68-40.

Group for the synthesis and study of dendrimeric macromolecules capable of self-organization.
Leaders - Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor Bilibin Alexander Yuryevich and Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor Girbasova Nina Vladimirovna
room 4174, tel. 428-40-75.

Group for the study of radiation-chemical transformations of polymers and stereolithography.
Head - Ph.D., Art. scientific collaborator Migunova Irina Ivanovna
room 4214, tel. 428-40-77.

Group for the synthesis and research of liquid crystal polymers and block copolymers.
Head - Doctor of Chemistry, Professor Bilibin Alexander Yurievich
room 3217, tel. 428-68-40, e-mail: [email protected]

Group of synthesis and research of conjugated polymers with electronic conductivity and capable of electroluminescence.
Supervisors - Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor Bilibin Alexander Yurievich and Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor Sokolova Olga Semenovna
room 4167, tel. 428-40-75, e-mail: [email protected]

Group for the synthesis and research of biocompatible and biodegradable polymers.
Head - Doctor of Chemistry, Professor Bilibin Alexander Yurievich,
Ph.D., assistant Zorin Ivan Mikhailovich
room 4170, tel. 428-40-75, e-mail: [email protected],
http://ivan-zorin.narod.ru .

Pedagogical work of the department

The department trains students in two specializations: "Chemistry of macromolecular compounds" and "Chemical technology of polymers". The teachers of the department give general courses of lectures "Chemistry of macromolecular compounds" and "Fundamentals of chemical technology", a course "Functional properties of polymers" for 4th year students of organic specialties, an elective course for undergraduate students "Polymers in biology and medicine", as well as a number of special courses in chemistry and physics of macromolecular compounds for students of the department. Since 2002, a general workshop on the chemistry of macromolecular compounds for 3rd year students has been introduced at the Faculty of Chemistry of St. Petersburg State University. Every year the department produces 5-6 specialists. In 2001, two graduate students studied at the department, in 2000 and 2001 two graduate students of the department defended their Ph.D. dissertations.

The teachers of the department prepared new courses in connection with the transition of the Faculty of Chemistry to a two-level education system.

In accordance with the general trend in the development of chemical sciences, in the pedagogical and scientific activities of the department, issues that are on the border of chemistry and biology, chemistry and medicine - questions of the "chemistry of life" are becoming increasingly important. In this regard, the courses "Biopolymers", "Polymers for medical purposes" are being introduced, these issues are emphasized in the already formed courses.

The department is doing a lot of work on the organization of industrial practice for students of the Faculty of Chemistry, which is carried out in the form of industrial excursions at chemical enterprises in St. Petersburg. These excursions allow the student to get acquainted with the possibilities and conditions of their future work, some students during these excursions and determine their future activities.
Scientific collaboration

The Department of Chemistry of the Naval Forces works in cooperation with the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences www.macro.ru, the Department of Polymer Physics of the Research Institute of Physics of St. Petersburg State University, the Institute for Polymer Research Dresden, Germany, www.ipfdd.de. The department's graduates work in major scientific centers such as the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de. Currently, the department, in addition to planned research, is working on grants from INTAS and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. In the 90s, the department received grants from NATO, the Soros Foundation and the Foundation "Russian Universities - Basic Research".

Major Publications

• Bilibin A. Yu. "Functional properties of polymers" textbook" Bilibin A. Yu., Skorokhodov S. S. editors New approaches in polymer synthesis and macromolecular formation // Macromol. Symp. 128 1998.
• Bilibin A. Yu., Girbasova N. V., Tenkovtsev A. V. Synthons as building blocks in the synthesis of liquid crystalline multiblocks copolymers // Macromol. Sypm.-1998.-Vol.128.-p.131-143.
• Bilibin A. Yu., Solovjeva J. V., Girbasova N. V., Schwarz G. Correlation of the thermal properties of main-chain liquid crystalline polymers with the symmetry and anisometry of their mesogens // Macromol. Chem. Phys.-2000.-Vol.201. No11.-p.1088-1100.
• Filippov S.K., Kolomiets I.P., Antonov E.A., Sokolova O.S., Zorin I.M., Bilibin A. Yu. The effect of a substituent in the central ring on the liquid crystalline properties of di 4-alkoxycarbonylphenyl terephthalates. // Liquid Crystals.-1998.-Vol.24. No5.-p.787-791.
• Bilibin A. Yu., Girbasova N. V., Zorin I. M. Natural amino acids as monomers in design of dendrimers and liquid crystalline polymers // 38 IUPAC Macromolecular symposium, Poland, Warsaw, 2000, Abstracts, p. 378.
• Zorin IM, Sokolova OS, Bilibin A. Yu. Thermotropic LC polymers with amino acid units in the main chain. // Vysokomol. Connected, Ser. B, 2000, Vol. 42. No9, p. 1580-1582.
• A. Yu. Bilibin, O.S. Sokolova, A.J. Grigorjev "Thermotropic Polyesters-9. Liquid Crystalline Polyesters with Fluorinated Spacers" Macromol. Chem. Phys. 197, 1021-1029 1996.
• D. V. Aref "ev, N. S. Domnina, E. A. Komarova, A. Yu. Bilibin // Eur. Polym. J., 35, 279, 1999.
• Nina Domnina, Denis Aref "ev, Elena Komarova, Alexander Bilibin Dextran as antioxidant activity carrier // Macromol. Symp. 144, 339-350 1999.
• N. S. Domnina, S. V. Karpova, E. A. Komarova // Russ. J. Appl. Chem., 68, 494, 1995.

Contacts

For all questions of interest, you can contact the head of the department Bilibin Alexander Yuryevich, room 3217, tel. 428-68-40,
e-mail: [email protected] or his deputy, Domnina Nina Semyonovna room 1208, tel. 428-68-40. Egorova Galina Georgievna works with students at the department, room 4217, tel. 428-40-77.

Associate Professor, Ph.D. Lysenko Evgeniy Alexandrovich (Chemistry Faculty of Moscow State University, Naval Forces Department).

26 hours

The course is an abbreviated and adapted version of the course "High-molecular compounds" of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University. In an optimally concise form, combining lectures and seminars, the fundamentals of polymer science are presented. The course includes the following main sections:

1. General ideas about macromolecular compounds. Structure and properties of isolated macromolecules. The basic concepts of the chemistry of macromolecular compounds, the features of polymers as a special type of chemical compounds, the principles of synthesis, the classification and main classes of macromolecular compounds, as well as the isomerism of polymers, the qualitative and quantitative description of flexibility as a fundamental property of macromolecules are considered.
2. Polymers in solutions: theory and research methods. The basic concepts of the physical chemistry of polymer solutions are introduced, experimental methods for studying solutions of polymers and nanoparticles, issues of electrolytic dissociation in polymer solutions, and polyelectrolytes are considered. Conformational properties of polyelectrolytes. Proteins and nucleic acids as polyelectrolytes.
3. polymers as materials. Nanostructures based on polymers. Structure and mechanical properties of polymers in the solid state. Polymers as functional materials.