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Biographical Sketch
Georgiy Borisovich Shul’pin
was born in Moscow (Russia). He is married (wife Lidia S. Shul’pina,
research scientist, Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) and has two sons, Svyatoslav
and Pavel. He graduated with a M. S. degree in chemistry from the
Chemistry Department of Moscow State University in 1969. During
1969–1972 he was a postgraduate student in Institute of
Organoelement Compounds (Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow)
under the supervision of Prof. A. N. Nesmeyanov and received his Ph.
D. in organometallic chemistry in 1975 (the topic: “The chemistry of
ferrocene and some other cyclopentadienyl and olefin complexes”).
Since 1978 G. B. Shul’pin has been working at N. N. Semenov
Institute of Chemical Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow).
He is currently a Senior Scientific Researcher.
His research activities
concern metal complex catalysis, oxidation of hydrocarbons,
activation of C–H bond in saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons,
organometallic chemistry. Other interests include photocatalysis,
biomimetic oxidations and ecological chemistry.
Main scientific
achievements of G. B. Shul’pin are the following: cyanoethylation of
ferrocene (1971), formation of inclusion adducts of thiourea with
ferrocene and some other complexes (1972), diastereotopy in
complexes of vinylferrocenes (1974), the synthesis of macrocyclic
ferrocenophanes (1975), the metalation reaction of arenes by
hexachloroplatinate (1979), the first example of photoelectrophilic
substitution in arenes: photoplatination (1983),
photodehydrogenation of alkanes by hexachloroplatinate (1983), a new
method of synthesis of pi-olefin complexes of platinum(II) by the
reaction of olefins with hexachloroplatinate under light irradiation
(1983), thermal and photochemical methylation of platinum complexes
by methyl derivatives of Sn and Ge (1984), electrophilic platination
of arenes under gamma-irradiation (1984), oxidation of alkanes by
Cr(VI) oxo complexes under light irradiation (1986), oxidation of
alkanes (including methane) by a system “hydrogen peroxide –
vanadium complex – pyrazine-2-carboxylic acid” (1992–2011),
photooxidation of alkanes to alkyl hydroperoxides by a system
“oxygen – quinone – copper acetate” (1995), aerobic photooxidation
of alkanes catalyzed by various oxo, chloride and cyclopentadienyl
complexes of transition metals (1988–1999), photochemical
degradation of phenols in aqueous solutions promoted by various
metal complexes (1997), stereoselective oxygenation of alkanes,
olefins, alcohols and sulfides by hydrogen peroxide in the presence
of a carboxylic acid catalyzed by a binuclear Mn(IV) complex
(1998–2011), hydrogen peroxide oxidations of hydrocarbons and
alcohols catalyzed by heterogeneous metal complexes (for example,
titanosilicalite TS-1, alumina, montmorillonites) (2006–2011),
oxidations of hydrocarbons and alcohols by systems H2O2/NaVO3/H2SO4,
H2O2/NaVO3/oxalic acid, and H2O2/Os3(CO)12/pyridine
(2009–2011).
He visited with courses of
lectures and worked as a visiting Professor in Brazil (with
Prof. U. Schuchardt, University of Campinas, 1996, 2002; Prof. E. R.
Lachter, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2001; Prof. D.
Mandelli, Pontific Catholic University, Campinas, 2003, 2007–2009),
Czech Republic (with Dr. P. Lederer, Institute of Inorganic
Chemistry, Prague, 1983, 1986, 1990), France (with Prof. J.
Muzart, Universite de Reims, 1991; Prof. B. Chaudret, Laboratoire de
Chimie de Coordination, CNRS, Toulouse, 1994; Prof. J.-M. Bregeault,
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 2002), Germany (with
Prof. C. Bolm, Institut fuer Organische Chemie der RWTH, Aachen,
2002), India (with Prof. A. Kumar, Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, 2008), Italy (with Dr. D.
Attanasio, Istituto di Teoria e Struttura Elettronica, CNR, Rome,
1991), Japan (with Prof. Y. Ishii, Kansai University, Osaka,
1998), Portugal (with Prof. A. J. L. Pombeiro,
Instituto Superior Técnico,
Lisbon, Portugal,
2006–2011), Spain (with Prof. J. Vicente, Universidad de
Murcia, 1993), Switzerland (with Prof. G. Süss-Fink,
Universite de Neuchatel, 1993–2006; Dr. D. Veghini, Lonza AG, Visp,
2000–2006), Thailand (with Prof. D. Thanaboripat and Dr. T.
Sooknoi, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok,
2004), UK (with Prof. J. R. Lindsay Smith, University of
York, 1997), USA (with Prof. R. S. Drago, University of
Florida, Gainesville, 1995). Shul’pin was a superviser and co-superviser
of M. S., Ph. D. and postdoc works. He is
a Foreign Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (Portugal) and
a member of Editorial Boards of journals: “Advances in Chemical
Engineering and Science”,“Catalysts”, “TheScientificWorldJOURNAL”
(domain "Organic Chemistry").
G. B. Shul’pin has
published more than 230 papers in international and Russian chemical
journals
resulting in more 5000 citations
(one of his publications has been cited more than 1300 times).
He is the author (coauthor) of monographs published in Russian and
English: S. P. Gubin and G. B. Shul’pin “The Chemistry of
Complexes Containing Metal-carbon Bonds”, Nauka, Novosibirsk,
1984 (280 pp.); G. B. Shul’pin “Organic Reactions Catalyzed by
Metal Complexes”, Nauka, Moscow, 1988 (285 pp.); A. E. Shilov
and G. B. Shul’pin “Activation and Catalytic Reactions of
Hydrocarbons”, Nauka, Moscow, 1995 (400 pp.); A. E. Shilov and
G. B. Shul’pin, “Activation and Catalytic Reactions of Saturated
Hydrocarbons in the Presence of Metal Complexes”, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London, 2000, (548 pp.);
G. B. Shul’pin, Chapter “Oxidations of C–H Compounds Catalyzed by
Metal Complexes”, in: "Transition Metals for Organic Synthesis",
Eds. M. Beller, C. Bolm, Second Edition, WILEY-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2004, Vol. 2, Chapter 2.2, pp. 215–241;
G. B. Shul’pin, Chapter “Selectivity in C–H functionalizations”, in:
“Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry II”, Vol. 6, Eds. J.
Reedijk, K. Poeppelmeier, L. Casella, Elsevier, in press. He holds
patents of Europe, USA, UK, Germany, Japan, France and USSR. He has
also written numerous books on popular science and articles in
popular scientific journals, for example: G. B. Shul’pin, “Engrossing
Chemistry”, Moscow, Khimiya, 1984, 184 pp, (second edition:
Moscow, Publisher URSS, 2011) in Russian; G. B. Shul’pin, “The World of
Unusual Molecules: Organometallic Complexes”, Moscow, Nauka,
1986, 176 pp, in Russian; G. B. Shul’pin, “Chemistry for
Everyone”, Moscow, Znanie, 1987, 144 pp, in Russian; G. B.
Shul’pin, “Engrossing Chemistry”, Sofia, Narodna Prosveta,
1988, 168 pp, in Bulgarian; C. Shulpin, “Que es la quimica
organica”, Ediciones Quinto Sol, Mexico, 1988, 272 pp., in
Spanish; G. B. Shul’pin, “Learning About Chemistry”, Moscow,
Mir Publishers, 1989, 232 pp., in English; G. B. Sulpin, “Okouzlujici
chemie”, Polytechnicka kniznice SNTL, Praha 1989, 158 pp. in
Czech; G. B. Shulpin, “Quimica para todos”, Moscu, Editorial
Mir, 1990, 264 pp., in Spanish.
Shul’pin is a medalist of
the Government for the honored citizens of Moscow (1997), and the
winner of the International Academic Publishing Company “Nauka/Interperiodica”
(Pleiades Publishing, Inc.) Award for the best publications of 2008
as well as of the prize of the Society “Znanie” (“Knowledge”) for
the popular book “Chemistry for Everyone”.
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