Alexander I. Boldyrev

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Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 56, Issue 26 p. 7348-7348 Author ProfileFree Access Alexander I. Boldyrev First published: 09 February 2017 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201700939AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract “My favorite place on earth is Kauai, Hawaii. My favorite author (fiction) is Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin ...” This and more about Alexander I. Boldyrev can be found on page 7348. Alexander I. Boldyrev The author presented on this page has recently published his 10th article in Angewandte Chemie in 10 years: “Peculiar All-Metal σ-Aromaticity of the [Au2Sb16]4− Anion in the Solid State”: I. A. Popov, F.-X. Pan, X.-R. You, L.-J. Li, E. Matito, C. Liu, H.-J. Zhai, Z.-M. Sun, A. I. Boldyrev, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 15344; Angew. Chem. 2016, 128, 15570. Date of birth: December 19, 1951 Position: Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University E-mail: a.i.boldyrev@usu.edu Homepage: http://ion.chem.usu.edu/∼boldyrev/ ORCID: 0000-0002-8277-3669 Education: 1974 Diploma in Chemistry, Novosibirsk State University 1978 PhD with Prof. Oleg P. Charkin, Institute of New Chemical Problems, USSR Academy of Science, Chernogolovka, and Moscow State University 1987 DSc, Institute of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Science, and Physico-Chemical Institute, Moscow 1990–1992 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with Professor Paul von R. Schleyer, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Awards: 1990 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship; 2008 Utah Award, American Chemical Society Salt Lake Section; 2009 D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award, Utah State University Current research interests: Developing chemical bonding models for clusters and novel chemical compounds; multicentered chemical bonding My favorite place on earth is Kauai, Hawaii. My favorite author (fiction) is Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. The most important things I learned from my parents are patience and perseverance. If I could have dinner with three famous scientists from history, they would be Dmitry I. Mendeleev, Erwin Schrödinger, and Gilbert N. Lewis. My worst nightmare is to find that a computer program I use for my research has not been working properly. My biggest motivation is my students. I would have liked to have discovered the Periodic Table. My top three films of all time are Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer), and Amarcord (Federico Fellini). The most significant scientific advance of the last 100 years has been the discovery of nuclear and thermonuclear reactions. The biggest problem that scientists face is that a significant part of the society lost trust in science. My favorite type of research is deciphering chemical bonding in new complicated compounds. If I won the lottery, I would buy a big computer cluster. My 5 top papers: References 1“DVM-Xα calculations on the ionization potentials of [MXk+1]− complex anions and the electron affinities of MXk+1 superhalogens”: G. L. Gutsev, A. I. Boldyrev, Chem. Phys. 1981, 56, 277. (18 years later experimentalists confirmed some of the predictions in this simple model.) 2“Observation of All-Metal Aromatic Molecules”: X. Li, A. E. Kuznetsov, H. F. Zhang, A. I. Boldyrev, L. S. Wang, Science 2001, 291, 859. (The concept of aromaticity was extended into metal clusters.) 3“Developing paradigms of chemical bonding: adaptive natural density partitioning”: D. Yu. Zubarev, A. I. Boldyrev, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2008, 10, 5207. (A new method was proposed for deciphering multicenter bonding in chemistry.) 4“δ Aromaticity in [Ta3O3]−: H.-J. Zhai, B. B. Averkiev, D. Yu. Zubarev, L. S. Wang, A. I. Boldyrev, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 4277; Angew. Chem. 2007, 119, 4355. (δ aromaticity was observed in a transition metal oxide cluster.) 5“Observation of the Highest Coordination Number in Planar Species: Decacoordinated Ta©B10− and Nb©B10− Anions”: T. R. Galeev, C. Romanescu, W.-L. Li, L. S. Wang, A. I. Boldyrev, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 2101; Angew. Chem. 2012, 124, 2143. (The high symmetry and stability of these species is due to the presence of the double (σ and π) aromaticity.) Volume56, Issue26June 19, 2017Pages 7348-7348 ReferencesRelatedInformation