The Khalimon Research Group
Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis
NEWS
08/12/2023
Azamat has completed his BSc program in Chemistry at NU and shortly will be heading to OIST (Okinawa) for his research internship in the group of Prof. Julia Khusnutdinova! Good luck Azamat!!!
01/11/2023
Welcome Azhar and Yegor!
Azhar (MSc student) and Yegor (BSc student) joined our group in Fall 2023.
18/06/2023
Congratulations to Ayazhan and Saniya on completion of their Chemistry BSc and Chemistry MSc programs (respectively)!
07/02/2023
Congratulations Aziza, Valeriya, Azamat, Ozgur and Kristina!!! Our epic paper on Ni-catalyzed deoxygenative hydroboration of amides has been accepted to Dalton Transactions (IF 4.569): DOI: 10.1039/D2DT03801C link
06/01/2023
Azamat will present his research entitled "Nickel phosphinite pincer complexes as catalysts for deoxygenative hydroboration of amides to amines" at the the ACS Spring 2023 meeting on March 26-30, 2023 in Indianapolis (USA)
10/12/2022
Welcome Tolganay and Ainur!
Tolganay and Ainur joined our group in Fall 2022 as PhD students of our brand new NU PhD Program in Chemistry.
30/08/2022
Prof. Andrey Y. Khalimon has been appointed as a Guest Editor of a special issue "Metal-Catalyzed Hydrogenation and Hydroelementation Reactions" in the section "Organometallic Chemistry" of Inorganics (MDPI).
Inorganics (ISSN 2304-6740; Q2, IF 3.149, citescore 5.1) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal that covers all aspects of inorganic chemistry research, including synthesis, characterization and applications of inorganic compounds, structure and bonding in inorganics, mechanisms of inorganic reactions, organometallic compound, inorganic cluster chemistry, coordination chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry, inorganic solid-state chemistry, and inorganic materials.
04/08/2022
The research work of Kristina and Ainur on hydroboration of isocyanates has been accepted for publication as a full paper in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (RSC, Q1, IF 3.89; link to the article). Well done!!!
17/06/2022
Congratulations to Valeriya on completion of her Chemistry BSc degree!
Valeriya will shortly move to Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST, Japan) for 5 months research internship in the group of Prof. Julia Khusnutdinova. Well done Valeriya!!!
05/06/2022
Welcome Ofeliya, Amina and Bakdaulet!
Three undergraduate students, Ofeliya Talimonyuk, Amina Zharkenova and Bakdaulet Seisenkul joined the Khalimon Lab in June 2022. Welcome on board guys!
31/01/2022
Congratulations Azamat!
Azamat has received the prestigious Yessenov Foundation “RESEARCH INTERNSHIP IN WORLD LABORATORIES” for 2022.
The program provides 10 grants for summer internships in leading scientific and research laboratories of the world, lasting up to 90 days! Well done Azamat!
29/11/2021
Welcome Saniya!
Saniya Rakisheva joined the Khalimon Lab in November as the 1st year MSc student. Saniya will be working on her MSc thesis aimed at the development of base-metal transfer hydrogenation catalysts
11/11/2021
Our Perspective paper "Deoxygenative Hydroboration of Carboxamides: A Versatile and Selective Synthetic Approach to Amines" has been accepted to Dalton Transactions (IF 4.390)
03/11/2021
Congratulations Kristina, Raikhan, Medet, Davit and Ainur!!! Our paper on Co-catalyzed hydroboration of nitro compounds has been accepted to Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis (IF 5.837): DOI 10.1002/adsc.202101043 link
02/09/2021
Our review paper on homogeneous base-metal-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation reactions has been accepted to Tetrahedron special issue "Sustainable Catalysis"
02/09/2021
Welcome Ayazhan!
Ayazhan Bizhanova joined the Khalimon Lab in September as an undergraduate research assistant
02/06/2021
Prof. Andrey Khalimon will present the research group projects at IUPAC/CCCE 2021 Virtual during August 13-20, 2021.
IUPAC/CCCE 2021 Virtual combines 51st IUPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 48th WORLD CHEMISTRY CONGRESS and 104th CANADIAN CHEMISTRY CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION under one event.
11/05/2021
Congratulations to Raikhan on completion of her BSc requirements in Chemistry!
30/04/2021
Congratulations Aziza!
On April 30th, Aziza successfully defended her MSc thesis "Synthesis and Catalytic Applications of Phosphinite Complexes of Nickel".
Well done Aziza!!!
Aziza will continue working in our laboratory as MSc Research Assistant
22/04/2021
The research abstract co-authored by Aziza, Valeriya and Kristina has been accepted to CCE-2021: XXII International Scientific Conference" Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in XXI century" which will be held at Tomsk Polytechnic University on May 17-20, 2021 in Tomsk (Russia)
15/03/2021
Our research has been featured in Org. Chem. Highlights: Reduction at the Organic Chemistry Portal
03/08/2020
Our recent paper has been highlighted in SYNFORM (Thieme Chemistry) link
30/07/2020
Congratulations Medet, Dimash, Ozgur and Davit!
Our full paper "Transfer Hydrogenation of Aldehydes and Ketones Catalyzed by an Aminophosphinite POCNH Pincer Complex of Ni(II)" has been recently accepted for publication in Dalton Transactions (IF 4.174) link
07/06/2020
Our hydroboration minireview paper has been recently accepted to Chem. Asian J. link
14/06/2020
Congratulations to Dimash and Adil on completion of their BSc in Chemistry!
05/05/2020
Prof. Andrey Khalimon was mentioned among the most cited Kazakhstani researchers in 2019 in the interview with the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Kazpravda news (in Russian) link
01/05/2020
Congratulations Alibek!
On May 1st, Alibek successfully defended his MSc thesis entitled "Cobalt catalyzed reduction of aromatic nitro compounds via homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis".
Well done Alibek!!!
25/03/2020
Congratulations Kristina, Ainur and Davit!
Great work team on your recently accepted Chem. Eur. J. paper! link