Fedor Naumkin
PhD
Associate Professor
Chemistry Undergraduate Program Director
Chemistry
Faculty of Science
RESEARCH: Theoretical / Computational Chemistry, with a focus on interdisciplinary Nanoscience. Research areas include atomic/molecular complexes and core-shell clusters, junctions and interfaces at molecular level. Present concentration is on highly polar supramolecular systems with enhanced optical activity and internal field moderated reactions. TEACHING: A range of 2nd- to 4th-year to graduate Physical and Computational Chemistry courses, 4 per year.
Contact information
Science Building - Room 4051
North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5
fedor.naumkin@ontariotechu.ca
http://myweb.science.uoit.ca/~fnaumkin/
Research topics
- Computational nanoscience
- core-shell clusters
- supramolecular complexes
- molecular interfaces
Areas of expertise
- Computational chemistry
- potential energy surfaces
- molecular properties
- structure-property relationships
Education
- MSc National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute 1987
- PhD Prokhorov General Physics Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences 1992
Courses taught
- CHEM 2010 Structure and Bonding
- CHEM 3140 Physical Chemistry for Biosciences
- CHEM 4060 Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy
- CHEM 4042 Advanced Topics in Chemistry (Computational Chemistry)
- And earlier:
- CHEM 2040 Thermodynamics and Kinetics
- MTSC 6010 Physics and Chemistry of Materials
- MTSC 6020 Advanced Topics in Materials Science (module)
- PHY 2050 Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
- PHY 3020 Quantum Mechanics
Research and expertise
I. Hydrogen stored inside merged metal cages:
II. Metal clusters with carbon cores:
III. Molecules trapped between counter-ions:
PUBLICATIONS
Selected recent:
M. Sullivan and F. Y. Naumkin, Highly Polar Insertion Complexes with Focused IR Spectra and Internal Field‐Inhibited Isomerization, ChemPlusChem 85 (2020) 2438-2445.
F. Y. Naumkin and D. J. Wales, Counterion-Trapped-Molecules: From High Polarity and Enriched IR Spectra to Induced Isomerization. ChemPhysChem 21 (2020) 348-355.
F. Y. Naumkin, P. del Mazo-Sevillano, A. Aguado, Y. V. Suleimanov and O. Roncero, Zero pressure and high pressure mechanisms in the complex forming reactions of OH with methanol and formaldehyde at low temperatures. ACS Earth and Space Chem. 3 (2019) 1158-1169.
Full list: chemistry/people/publications+reports-fn.pdf