Oleg Grigoryevich Kulinkovich

Oleg Grigorjewitsch Kulinkowitsch , Russian Олег Григорьевич Кулинкович , English transcription Kulinkovich, (born May 11, 1948 in Paide ) is a Russian chemist ( organic chemistry ).

Kulinkowitsch studied at the Belarusian State University in Minsk with a degree in 1971 and a doctorate in 1975 ( cyclic addition of dichlorocarbene to vinyl acetylene compounds and some transformations of the resulting adducts ). He became an associate professor in 1979, and in 1987 he completed his habilitation (Russian doctorate) with the dissertation Activated Cyclopropyl Ketones: Manufacturing Processes, Properties and Synthetic Applications . and received a full professorship in chemistry there. From 1993 to 2004 he was head of the organic chemistry and polymer chemistry department and then the laboratory for organic element synthesis. He resigned in 2009 due to a dispute with the rector of the Belarusian State University and became a professor at Tallinn University , where he was previously a visiting professor.

He develops catalytic and non-catalytic synthesis methods based on strained organic or organometallic compounds, in particular small rings such as cyclopropanols. Here the Kulinkovich reaction is named after him. He applied the synthesis with activated cyclopropanols, for example, for the synthesis of sex hormones from insects.

Fonts

• Cyclopropanes in organic synthesis, Wiley 2015, ISBN 978-1-118-97841-2

Web links

• Website with CV (Estonian)