Viktor V. Zhdankin

Viktor V. Zhdankin: was born in Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation. His M.S. (1978), Ph.D. (1981), and Doctor of Chemical Sciences (1986) degrees were earned at Moscow State University in the research laboratories of Professor Nikolay S. Zefirov. He moved to the University of Utah in 1990, where he worked for three years as Instructor of organic chemistry and Research Associate with Professor Peter J. Stang. In 1993, he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he is currently a Professor of Chemistry. He published about 300 scientific papers, edited several books, co-authored the Handbook of Heterocyclic Chemistry (3rd Edition, 2010), and authored a book on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry (Wiley, November 2013). His main research interests are in the fields of synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry of hypervalent main-group elements (iodine, xenon, selenium, sulfur, and phosphorus) and organofluorine chemistry. In 2011 he was a recipient of National Award of the American Chemical Society for Creative Research & Applications of Iodine Chemistry.

Website: www.d.umn.edu/~vzhdanki