Area of special concern of the Laboratory members is and will be general basic research with emphasis on the study of biologically active molecules, design, synthesis and properties of organometallic complexes of biological and pharmacological significance and those that can be applied in organic synthesis, catalysis or as chromogenic and fluorescent chemosensors.
 We plan to measure and monitor those relevant components of the atmosphere (reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species) that will allow us to study the oxidation effects of the atmosphere on the living organisms and materials.

Special attention will be oriented to macromolecules – to structural analysis of peptides and proteins in complex biological mixtures. Experiments with state-of-art mass spectrometry techniques is unavoidable in achieving this goal. Thus the new sophisticated mass spectrometers which have been installed in our Laboratory this year will be used: Amazon ETD, Bruker Daltonik (LC-MS) and MALDI TOF Biotyper, Bruker Daltonik. To improve the fundamental understanding of reactivity, (biological) activity and mechanism of other classes of molecules UV photoelectron spectroscopy (PES), electronic (UV-Vis) spectrophotometry together with resident techniques including IR, NMR, EPR and X-Ray diffraction will be used. Experimental studies, combined with computational investigations provide a conceptual framework and an efficient means to obtain direct insight into reactivity patterns, the importance of electronic structure and the nature of intermediates.

One category of mass spectrometry activities will be focused towards a fee-based routine service program for external users including qualitative protein identification and the identification and characterization of microorganisms

Laboratory instrumentation

Instruments available for the work on our research projects:

• MALDI TOF mass spectrometer system for whole cell mass spectrometry
• nano-LC-MS/MS system for protein primary structure research, PTM discovery and proteomics
• Photoelectron Spectrometer UVG 3
• uv-vis spectrophotometer
• different kind of monitors for air pollution measurements

Some of the existing equipment is obviously old (e.g. photoelectron spectrometer) but is still performing satisfactorily and is being used to produce high quality research work as evidenced by the publications.

Tabular view of instruments available in laboratory:

MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer Bruker Microflex		MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer system for whole cell mass spectrometry Manufacturer an model: Bruker Daltonik Microflex series Year of production: 2011.
Mass spectrometer Bruker amaZon and Dionex HPLC		Nano LC/MS system system for protein primary structure research, PTM discovery and proteomics Manufacturers an models: Bruker Daltonik amaZon i Dionex HPLC. Godina proizvodnje Year of production: 2011.
Photoelectron spectrometer Vacuum Generators UVG 3		Photoelectron Spectrometer UVG 3 Photoelectron Spectrometer Manufacturer an model: Vacuum Generators UVG 3 Year of production: 1973.
UV-VIS spectrophotometer Agilent Agilent G1103A		UV-VIS spektrophotometer Agilent G1103A UV-VIS spectrophotometer Manufacturer an model: Agilent G1103A Year of production: 2001.
Air pollution monitors		Different kind of monitors for air pollution measurements Manufacturers an models: Monitors: Ansyco O341M, Ansyco AC31M, Environics ozone analyzer series 300 Data logers: DataTaker DT50 Series3, DataTaker 5, Campbell Scientific MicroLogger 21X Year of production: varying from 1990 to 2005.