Fedor Naumkin
PhD
Associate Professor
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 4041/4042 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. Molecules trapped between counter-ions:
II. Metal clusters with carbon cores:
III. Hydrogen stored inside merged metal cages:
PUBLICATIONS
Selected recent:
F. Y. Naumkin, Main-Group Metal Complexes of Benzene: Predicted Features of Stabilization and Isomerization, Molecules 28 (2023) 5985.
M. Giammarco and F. Y. Naumkin, Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation “Catalyzed” by Ion-Pair Constituents, ChemistrySelect 8 (2023) e202300057.
F. Y. Naumkin, Structural evolution of dicarbon-silver cluster anions: from flat to 3-dimensional and from attached to core–shell, Molecular Physics 121 (2023) e2168468.
F. Y. Naumkin, Shape Symmetrization and IR-Spectral Enhancement of Aluminum Clusters via Doping with a Carbon Core. J. Phys. Chem. A 125 (2021) 5738–5744.
M. Sullivan and F. Y. Naumkin, Supramolecular complexes with insertion-enhanced polarity and tuned IR spectra. Int. J. Quantum Chem., 121 (2021) e26534.
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.
Further list: chemistry/people/publications+reports-fn.pdf