Anastasia Naumova

Ph.D. thesis: “High-pressure chemistry of C-N-H-O system”

Supervisor: Prof. Artem R. Oganov 

IDC committee members: Prof. Artem R. Oganov, Dr. Alexander Kvashnin and Dr. Sergey Lepeshkin

Anastasia graduated from Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2015 majoring in chemistry. Her diploma work was dedicated to diastereoselective synthesis of functionalized nitro compounds based on Mukaiyama-Mannich reactions with further oxidation. At Skoltech Anastasia’s focus of research was totally switched to theory and material’s science. In her current project, she works on investigation of high-pressure chemistry of C-H and C-N-H-O systems. Both these systems are important for understanding chemical processes on giant planets.

List of papers:

1. A. S. Naumova, A. A. Mikhaylov, M. I. Struchkova, Yu. A. Khomutova, V. A. Tartakovsky, S. L. Ioffe. Stereocontrolled Oxidation of Six‐Membered Cyclic O‐Silyl Nitroso Acetals with mCPBA: Umpolung Approach to Functionalized Nitro Compounds. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 2219–2224.
2. A. S. Naumova, A. A. Mikhaylov, Yu. A. Khomutova, R. A. Novikov, D. E. Arkhipov, A. A. Korlyukov, S. L. Ioffe. Three-step assembly of 4-aminotetrahydropyran-2-ones from isoxazoline-2-oxides. RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 12467–12475.
3. O. V. Larionov, D. Stephens, A. M. Mfuh, H. D. Arman, A. S. Naumova, G. Chavez, B. Skenderi. Insights into the mechanistic and synthetic aspects of the Mo/P-catalyzed oxidation of N-heterocycles.Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014, 12, 3026-3036.
4. A. A. Mikhaylov, P. A. Zhmurov, A. S. Naumova, Yu. A. Khoroshutina, A. Yu. Sukhorukov, S. L. Ioffe. Stereoselective synthesis of spirocyclic nitronates by SnCl₄-promoted reaction of nitroalkenes with C-2 substituted 4-methylidene-1,3-dioxolane. Mend. Commun. 2015, 25, 6, 449-451.
5. S. Lepeshkin, V. Baturin, E. Tikhonov, N. Matsko, Yu. Uspenskii, A. Naumova, O. Feya, M. A. Schoonene, A. R. Oganov. Super-oxidation of silicon nanoclusters: magnetism and reactive oxygen species at the surface. Nanoscale. Chem. 2016, 8, 18616-18620.
6. A. S. Naumova, S. Lepeshkin, A. R. Oganov. Hydrocarbons Under Pressure: Phase Diagrams and Surprising New Compounds in the C-H System. JPCC 2019, to be published soon.

List of conferences:

1. Anastasia S. Naumova, Sergey S. Lepeshkin, Artem R. Oganov. High-pressure chemistry of hydrocarbons (talk). International V.A. Fock Meeting on Theoretical, Quantum and Computational Chemistry, Sochi, Russia (2018).
2. Anastasia S. Naumova, Sergey S. Lepeshkin, Artem R. Oganov. Hydrocarbons Under Pressure: Phase Diagrams and Surprising New Compounds in the C-H System (invited talk at Matter in extreme environments section). APS March Meeting, Boston, USA (2019).