Kudinov Alexander Rudolfovich (1955–2016)

Doctor of chemistry, professor, the head of the Laboratory of π-complexes of transition metals of INEOS RAS (1999–2016).

He is the author of a large number of articles, reviews and patents. Under his supervision and with his participation, 10 candidate (PhD) and 3 doctoral dissertations were prepared. He developed an approach based on the generation of coordinatively unsaturated fragments of transition metals (in the form of their labile solvate complexes). This allowed to synthesize a wide range of various organometallic complexes with unique structures in high yields. Under his leadership, extensive research was carried out in the field of sandwich, half-sandwich, multi-decker, metallacarborane, cluster and other complexes of transition metals. In particular, triple-decker complexes of Group 8 metals with a bridging cyclopentadienyl ligand were described for the first time. Also, the discovery of polyhedral expansion in the series of metallаcarboranes with the formation of 13-vertex derivatives, studies of polyhedral rearrangements in metallacarboranes, as well as general approaches to the synthesis of arene complexes of transition metals are of particular note. A.R. Kudinov was a brilliant scientist with a broad outlook, his work was distinguished by the depth and thoroughness of research.

Key publications of A.R. Kudinov:

1. M. I. Rybinskaya, A. R.Kudinov, V. S. Kaganovich «A new preparative route to cationic arene complexes of ruthenium(II), rhodhium(III) and iridium(III)» J. Organomet. Chem. 1983, 246, 279-285.
2. A. R. Kudinov, M. I. Rybinskaya, Yu. T. Struchkov, A. I. Yanovskii, P. V. Petrovskii «Synthesis of the first 30-electron triple-decker complexes of the iron group metals with cyclopentadienyl ligands. X-Ray structure of [(η-C5H5)Ru(μ,η-C5Me5)Ru(η-C5Me5)]PF6» J. Organomet. Chem. 1987, 336, 187-197.
3. M. I. Rybinskaya, A. R. Kudinov, D. V. Muratov, N. P. Gambaryan, I. V. Stankevich, A. L. Chistyakov «Three-membered metallacycle Cp3Rh3(μ-CO)3 as a cluster and benzenoid system in reactions with 12-electron particles PPh3M+ (where M = Cu, Ag, Au) and CpM+ (where M = Fe, Ru)» J. Organomet. Chem. 1991, 413, 419-426.
4. A. R. Kudinov, D. S. Perekalin, S. S. Rynin, K. A. Lyssenko, G. V. Grintselev-Knyazev, P. V. Petrovskii «Direct Electrophilic Insertion into a Twelve-Vertex Metallacarborane» Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 114, 4286-4288.
5. A. R. Kudinov, D. A. Loginov, Z. A. Starikova, P. V. Petrovskii, M. Corsini, P. Zanello «Iron- and Ruthenium-Containing Triple-Decker Complexes with a Central Pentaphospholyl Ligand − X-ray Structures of [(η-C5H5)Fe(μ-η:η-P5)Ru(η-C5Me5)]PF6 and [(η-C5Me5)Ru(μ-η:η-P5)Ru(η-C5Me5)]PF6» Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2002, 2002, 3018-3027.
6. A. R. Kudinov, E. V. Mutseneck, D. A. Loginov «(Tetramethylcyclobutadiene)cobalt chemistry» Coord. Chem. Rev. 2004, 248, 571-585.
7. D. S. Perekalin, A. R. Kudinov «Cyclopentadienyl ruthenium complexes with naphthalene and other polycyclic aromatic ligands» Coord. Chem. Rev. 2014, 276, 153-173.