Projects

Minimal Artificial Enzymes: Expanding the Application of "Backdoor Induction" through new Substrates and new Asymmetric Reactions

This project aims at the development of chiral transition metal catalysts with particular emphasis on inspiration taken from nature.

Principal investigator: dr. sc. Srećko Kirin

Functional metal complexes that bind to biomolecules

COST Action CM1105 (2012-2016); Management Committee member: dr. sc. Srećko Kirin

Bioinspired asymmetric catalysis: backdoor induction of chirality using oxazoline based amino acid bioconjugates

NewFelPro scholarship (38/14), Marie Curie FP7-People-2011-Cofund; (2014.-2016.); leader: dr. Manish Kumar, mentor: dr. sc. Srećko Kirin

Catalytic and biological properties of metal complexes with nitrogen ligands

Croatian-Slovenian bilateral collaboration (2014-2015)

Principal investigator: dr. sc. Srećko Kirin

Effect of natural acidic macromolecules on calcium carbonate precipitation

The study of the influence of natural acidic macromolecules, extracted from the skeleton of sea corals, on precipitation of CaCO3 polymorphs, calcite and aragonite.

Principal investigator: dr. sc. Branka Njegić Džakula