Dr. Alexey Alexandrovich Popov

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsPhysical Chemistry of Molecules, Liquids and Interfaces, Biophysical Chemistry,Inorganic Molecular Chemistry
Keywordssingle molecule magnetism, spectroelectrochemistry, endohedral fullerenes, density functional theory, ESR spectroscopy

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityDresden
InstitutionLeibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (IFW) e.V.
InstituteInstitut für Festkörperforschung
Homepagehttp://www.ifw-dresden.de/about-us/people/dr-alexey-popov/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Lothar DunschAbteilung Elektrochemie und leitfähige Polymere, Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (IFW) e.V., Dresden
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2008

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2010A. A. Popov, L. Zhang, L. Dunsch: A pseudoatom in a cage: trimetallofullerene Y3@C80 mimics Y3N@C80 with nitrogen substituted by a pseudoatom. In: ACS Nano, 2010, 795-802
2010X.-B. Wang, C. Chi, I. V. Kuvychko, K. Seppelt, A. A. Popov, S. H. Strauss, O. V. Boltalina, L.-S. Wang: Photoelectron Spectroscopy of C60Fn– and C60Fm2– (n = 17, 33, 35, 43, 45, 47; m = 34, 46) in the Gas Phase and the Generation and Characterization of C1-C60F47– and D2-C60F44 in Solution. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2010, 1756-1765
2010N. B. Shustova, Z. Mazej, Y.-S. Chen, A. A. Popov, S. H. Strauss, O. V. Boltalina: Saturnene Revealed: X-ray Crystal Structure of D5d-C60F20 Formed in Reactions of C60 with AxMFy Fluorinating Agents (A=Alkali Metal; M=3d Metal). In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2010, 812-815
2009Shangfeng Yang, Chuanbao Chen, Alexey A. Popov, Wenfeng Zhang, Fupin Liu and Lothar Dunsch: An endohedral titanium(III) in a clusterfullerene: putting a non-group-III metal nitride into the C80-Ih fullerene cage. In: Chemical Communications, 2009, 6391-6393
2009Alexey Popov, Lothar Dunsch: Bonding in Endohedral Metallofullerenes as Studied by Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules . In: Chemistry - A European Journal, 2009, 9707-9729
2009M. Zalibera, P. Rapta, A. A. Popov, L. Dunsch: Charged States of Four Isomers of C84 Fullerene: In Situ ESR and Vis−NIR Spectroelectrochemistry and DFT Calculations. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009, 5141-5149
2009D. V. Peryshkov, A. A. Popov, S. H. Strauss: Direct Perfluorination of K2B12H12 in Acetonitrile Occurs at the Gas Bubble−Solution Interface and Is Inhibited by HF. Experimental and DFT Study of Inhibition by Protic Acids and Soft, Polarizable Anions. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 18393-18403
2009Alexey Alexandrovich Popov: Metal-Cage Bonding, Molecular Structures and Vibrational Spectra of Endohedral Fullerenes: Bridging Experiment and Theory. In: Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 2009, 292-317
2009S. Yang, A. A. Popov, C. Chen, L. Dunsch: Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes in Cage Isomers: LuxSc3−xN@C80 (x = 1, 2) As Compared with MxSc3−xN@C80 (M = Er, Dy, Gd, Nd). In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009, 7616-7623
2009O. V. Boltalina, A. A. Popov, S. H. Strauss: Physicochemical Properties and the Unusual Structure of Fullerenes: Single-crystal X-ray Structures of Fullerenes and Their Derivatives. In: H. Dodzik, Strained Hydrocarbons: Beyond the van't Hoff and Le Bel Hypothesis. Wiley-VCH, 2009. 225-238
2009Alexey Alexandrovich Popov: Physicochemical Properties and the Unusual Structure of Fullerenes: Vibrational and Electronic Spectra. In: H. Dodzik, Strained Hydrocarbons: Beyond the van't Hoff and Le Bel Hypothesis. Wiley-VCH, 2009. 238-249
2009Alexey A. Popov, Alexander V. Burtsev, Vladimir M. Senyavin, Lothar Dunsch, Sergey I. Troyanov : Spectroscopic and Theoretical Study of the Dimeric Dicationic Fullerene Complex, [(C70)2]2+(Ti3Cl13)−2. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2009, 263-272
2009Alexey Alexandrovich Popov, Vladimir Senyavin, Vitaly Korepanov, Ilya Goldt, Alexey Lebedev, Vladimir Stankevich, Konstantin Menshikov, Nikolay Svechnikov, Olga Boltalina, Ivan Kareev, S. Kimura, O. Sidorova, K. Kanno, I. Akimoto: Vibrational, electronic, and vibronic excitations of polar C60F18 molecules: Experimental and theoretical study. In: Physical Review B, 2009, 045413
2008Ivan E. Kareev, Alexey A. Popov, Igor V. Kuvychko, Natalia B. Shustova, Sergey F. Lebedkin, Vyachevslav P. Bubnov, Oren P. Anderson, Konrad Seppelt, Steven H. Strauss, Olga V. Boltalina: Synthesis and X-ray or NMR/DFT Structure Elucidation of Twenty-One New Trifluoromethyl Derivatives of Soluble Cage Isomers of C76, C78, C84, and C90 . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 13471-13489
131Natalia B. Shustova, Yu-Sheng Chen, Mary A. Mackey, Curtis E. Coumbe, J. Paige Phillips, Steven Stevenson, Alexey A. Popov, Olga V. Boltalina and Steven H. Strauss: Sc3N@(C80-Ih(7))(CF3)14 and Sc3N@(C80-Ih(7))(CF3)16. Endohedral Metallofullerene Derivatives with Exohedral Addends on Four and Eight Triple-Hexagon Junctions. Does the Sc3N Cluster Control the Addition Pattern or Vice Versa?. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131, 17630-17637