Professor Victor N. Nemykin
Professor Victor N. Nemykin
Department of Chemistry
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Abstract
Creating new electron-deficient types of functional dyes that are potentially useful as electron acceptors in solar cells
We have developed synthetic protocols for the preparation of several classes of electron-deficient functional dyes that have a first reduction potential close to the traditional fullerenes. These include (i) functionalization of BODIPY core at meso-position; (ii) creation and functionalization of BOPHY platform; (iii) selective synthesis of 2-pyridone-BODIPYs; (iv) creation of electron-deficient “Manitoba Dipyrromethene” (MB-DIPY) chromophores and (v) discovery of hybrid β-isoindigo-aza-DIPY systems (Figure 1).
Victor N. Nemykin
Professor Victor Nemykin is currently a Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. He was born and raised in Ukraine, where he received an undergraduate degree from Kyiv State University and a Ph.D. from the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry (1995). After JSPS (1998-2000) and Duquesne University postdoctoral positions, he was a faculty at the University of Minnesota - Duluth (2004-2016) and Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manitoba (2016-2020). He co-authored more than 265 research papers, reviews, and book chapters.
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