Dr. Marina Sekutor, Senior Research Associate, Ruder Boskovic Institute

The Department of Chemistry Presents: Dr. Marina Sekutor, Senior Research Associate, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laboratory of Synthetic Organic Chemistry

In this talk Dr. Sekutor will present recent research activities in the field of preparation, characterization and application of diamondoids and showcase a versatility of this class of diamond-like cage compounds. Examples will be given, detailing the use of diamondoid derivatives as excellent guests for supramolecular hosts like cucurbit[n]urils¹ and cyclodextrins,² but also as good starting points for supramolecular conglomeration and cluster formation.³ Going further, examples of diamondoid monolayer formation on various metal⁴ and non-metal⁵ surfaces will demonstrate venues of their potential application as building blocks in nanotechnology.

BIO

Dr. Sekutor her BS  and PhD in Chemistry at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.  Dr. Sekutor continued with a Postdoctoral Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation with Prof. Peter R. Schreiner, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany.  Dr. Sekutor then returned to Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia for research where she is now the group leader for Polycyclic Chemistry, Laboratory for Synthetic Organic Chemistry in the Division of Organic and Biochemistry.

REFERENCES

1. a) D. Sigwalt, M. Šekutor, L. Cao, P. Y. Zavalij, J. Hostaš, H. Ajani, P. Hobza, K. Mlinarić-Majerski, R. Glaser, L. Isaacs, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 3249, b) J. Hostaš, D. Sigwalt, M. Šekutor, H. Ajani, M. Dubecký, J. Řezáč, P. Y. Zavalij, L. Cao, C. Wohlschlager, K. Mlinarić-Majerski, L. Isaacs, R. Glaser, P. Hobza, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 17226, c) L. Cao, M. Šekutor, P. Y. Zavalij, K. Mlinarić-Majerski, R. Glaser, L. Isaacs, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 988.

2. M. Alešković, S. Roca, R. Jozepović, N. Bregović, M. Šekutor, New. J. Chem. 2022, 46, 13406.

3. J. Alić, R. Messner, F. Lackner, W. E. Ernst, M. Šekutor, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 21833.

4. a) H.-Y. Gao, M. Šekutor, L. Liu, A. Timmer, H. Schreyer, H. Mönig, S. Amirjalayer, N. A. Fokina, A. Studer, P. R. Schreiner, H. Fuchs, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 315, b) D. Ebeling, M. Šekutor, M. Stiefermann, J. Tschakert, J. E. P. Dahl, R. M. K. Carlson, A. Schirmeisen, P. R. Schreiner, Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 2420, c) D. Ebeling, M. Šekutor, M. Stiefermann, J. Tschakert, J. E. P. Dahl, R. M. K. Carlson, A. Schirmeisen, P. R. Schreiner, ACS Nano 2017, 11, 9459.

5. J. Alić, I. Biljan, Z. Štefanić, M. Šekutor, Nanotechnology 2022, 33, 355603.