[dr Snezana D. Zaric]

Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd
Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry

Phone:   011-3336605

Phone (local):   605

Laboratory:   576

E-mail:   szaric@chem.bg.ac.rs

Personal data

Born on January 2, 1962 in Jasenovo, Serbia. Married. Speaks Serbian, English and Russian language.

Education and qualifications

1980-1984: Undergraduate studies - Chemistry / Prirodno-matematički fakultet (Belgrade, Serbia)

1984-1990: Master of science studies - Chemistry / Prirodno-matematički fakultet (Belgrade, Serbia)

1990-1995: Doctoral academic (PhD) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

History of employment

1986: Graduate assistant / Prirodno-matematički fakultet (Belgrade, Serbia)

1986-1994: Graduate assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

1991-1996: Assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

1997-2002: Assistant professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2003-2010: Associate professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2010: Full professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

Scientific interest

Computational chemistry, coordination chemistry, noncovalent interactions.

Other activities

Member of Serbian Chemical Society.

Member of American Chemical Society.

Member of Serbian Crystallographic Society.

Member of the Committee for Strategy of Scientific Development of the Faculty of Chemistry from December 10, 2020.

Educational activities

Participation in research projects

Active projects:

Finished projects:

  • 2011: – 172065   (principal investigator)
    project type:   National Fundamental Research Projects
    project is funded by: Ministry of Science and Technological Development (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • 2011-2015: – 172065-¸Ć   (principal investigator)
    project type:   National Innovation Projects

Author identification numbers

Representative references

  1. Dušan Ž. Veljković, Goran V. Janjić and Snežana D. Zarić: "Are the C–H···O interactions linear? Case of the aromatic CH donors" Cryst EngComm, 13, 5005-5010 (2011)
  2. Dragan B. Ninković, Goran V. Janjić, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Dušan N. Sredojević and Snežana D. Zarić: "What Are the Preferred Horizontal Displacements in Parallel Aromatic-Aromatic Interactions? Significant interactions at large horizontal displacement", ChemPhysChem, 12, 3511 – 3514 (2011)
  3. Dragan B. Ninković, Goran V. Janjić and Snežana D. Zarić: "Crystallographic and ab Initio Study of Pyridine Stacking Interactions. Local Nature of Hydrogen Bond Effect in Stacking Interactions." Crystal Growth & Design, 12, 1060–1063 (2012)
  4. Jelena M. Andrić, Goran V. Janjić, Dragan B. Ninković and Snežana D. Zarić: "The Influence of Water Molecule Coordination to a Metal Ion onto Hydrogen Bonds" PhysChemChemPhys, 14, 10896-10898 (2012) DOI: 10.1039/c2cp41125c
  5. Vesna B. Medaković, Goran A. Bogdanović, Miloš K. Milčić, Goran V. Janjić, Snežana D. Zarić: "CH/π interactions in metal-porphyrin complexes with pyrrole and chelate rings as hydrogen acceptors" Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 117, 157–163 (2012)
  6. Dragan B. Ninković, Jelena M. Andrić and Snežana D. Zarić: "Significant parallel interactions at large horizontal displacement in pyridine-pyridine and benzene-pyridine dimers" ChemPhysChem, 14, 237–243 (2013)
  7. Dragan B. Ninković, Jelena M. Andrić, Saša N. Malkov and Snežana D. Zarić: "What are Preferred Horizontal Displacements of Aromatic/Aromatic Interactions in Proteins? Comparison with Calculated Benzene/Benzene Potential Energy Surface" PhysChemChemPhys, 16, 11173-11177 (2014)
  8. Amanda L. Pitts, Alisdair Wriglesworth, Xue-Zhong Sun, James A. Calladine, Snežana D. Zarić, Michael W. George, and Michael B. Hall: "Carbon-Hydrogen Activation of Cycloalkanes by Cyclopentadienylcarbonylrhodium - A Lifetime Enigma" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 8614-8625 (2014)
  9. Goran V. Janjić, Saša N. Malkov, Miodrag V. Živković and Snežana D. Zarić: "What are Preferred Water–Aromatic Interactions in Proteins and Crystal Structures of Small Molecules?" PhysChemChemPhys, 16, 23549-23553 (2014)
  10. Jelena P. Blagojević and Snežana D. Zarić: "Stacking interactions of hydrogen-bridged rings – stronger than the stacking of benzene molecules" Chem. Commun., 51, 12989-12991 (2015)
  11. Ivana S. Antonijević, Goran V. Janjić., Miloš K. Milčić., Snežana D. Zarić: "Preferred Geometries and Energies of Sulfur Sulfur Interactions in Crystal Structures" Cryst Growth Des. 16, 632–639 (2016)
  12. Dragan B. Ninković, Dubravka Z. Vojislavljević-Vasilev, Vesna B. Medaković, Michael B. Hall, Edward N. Brothers, Snežana D. Zarić: "Aliphatic-aromatic stacking interactions in cyclohexane-benzene are stronger than aromatic-aromatic interaction in the benzene dimer", PhysChemChemPhys 18, 25791-25795 (2016)
  13. Dušan P. Malenov, Goran V. Janjić, Vesna B. Medaković, Micheal. B. Hall, Snežana D. Zarić: "Noncovalent Bonding: Stacking Interactions of Chelate Rings of Transition Metal Complexes", Cood. Chem. Rev. 345, 318-341 (2017)
  14. Dragan B. Ninković, Salvador Moncho, Predrag V. Petrović, Snežana D. Zarić, Michael B. Hall, Edward N. Brothers: "Methane Activations by Titanium Neopentylidene Complexes: Electronic Resilience and Steric Control" Inorg. Chem., 56, 9264–9272 (2017)
  15. Dragan B. Ninković, Dušan P. Malenov, Predrag V. Petrović, Edward N. Brothers, Shuqiang Niu, Michael B. Hall, Milivoj R. Belić, Snežana D. Zarić: "Unexpected Importance of Aromatic–Aliphatic and Aliphatic Side Chain–Backbone Interactions in the Stability of Amyloids" Chemistry Eur. J., 23, 11046-11053 (2017)
  16. Goran Janjic, Milica Milosavljević, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Snežana D. Zarić: "The Prediction of Strong O-H/M Hydrogen Bonding between Water and Square-planar Ir and Rh Complexes", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, 8657-8660 (2017)
    (This article is part of the themed collection: 2017 PCCP HOT Articles)
  17. Dušan P. Malenov and Snežana D. Zarić: "Chelated metal ions modulate the strength and geometry of stacking interactions: energies and potential energy surfaces for chelate-chelate stacking." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 20, 14053-14060 (2018)
  18. Jia Guan, Alisdair Wriglesworth, Xue Zhong Sun, Edward N. Brothers, Snežana D. Zarić, Meagan E. Evans, William D. Jones, Michael Towrie, Michael B. Hall, Michael W. George: "Probing the Carbon–Hydrogen Activation of Alkanes Following Photolysis of Tp′Rh(CNR)(carbodiimide): A Computational and Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopic Study" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 1842–1854 (2018)
  19. Qian Peng, Zengwei Wang, Snežana D. Zarić, Edward N. Brothers and Michael B. Hall: "Unraveling the Role of a Flexible Tetradentate Ligand in the Aerobic Oxidative Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation with Palladium Complexes: A Computational Mechanistic Study", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 11, 3929-3939 (2018)
  20. Dušan P. Malenov, Dušan Z. Veljković, Michael B. Hall, Edward N. Brothers and Snežana D. Zarić: "Influence of chelate ring type on chelate-chelate and chelate-aryl stacking: The case of nickel bis(dithiolene)" Phys, Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 1198-1206 (2019)
  21. Carlos A. Triana, René Moré, Aaron J. Bloomfield, Predrag V. Petrović, Sara Goberna Ferrón, George Stanley, Snežana D. Zarić, Thomas Fox, Edward N. Brothers, Stafford W. Sheehan, Paul T. Anastas, Greta R. Patzke: "Soft Templating and Disorder in an Applied 1D Cobalt Coordination Polymer Electrocatalyst", Matter, (2019) 1, 1354-1369
  22. Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić: "Strong stacking interactions of metal-chelate rings are caused by substantial electrostatic component" Dalton Transactions, 2019, 48, 6328-6332 (2019)
    (This article is part of the themed collection: 2019 Dalton Transactions HOT Articles)
  23. Dušan P Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić: "Stacking interactions between ruthenium p-cymene complexes: combined crystallographic and density functional study" CrystEngComm (2019), 21 (47), 7204-7210
    (This article is part of the themed collection: 2019 CrystEngComm HOT Articles)
    (This article is featured on the front cover of the issue of CrystEngComm)
  24. Milan R. Milovanović, Jelena M. Živković, Dragan B. Ninković, Ivana M. Stanković, Snežana D. Zarić: "How flexible is the water molecule structure? Analysis of crystal structures and the potential energy surface" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2020) 22, 4138-4143
  25. Ivana M. Stanković, Shuqiang Niu, Michael B. Hall, Snežana D. Zarić: "Role of Aromatic amino acids in amyloid self-assembly" International Journal of Biological Macromol. (2020) 156, 949-959
  26. Dragan B. Ninković, Jelena P. Blagojević Filipović, Michael B. Hall, Edward N. Brothers, Snežana D. Zarić: "What is Special about Aromatic–Aromatic Interactions? Significant Attraction at Large Horizontal Displacement" ACS Central Science (2020), 6, 420-425
  27. Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić: "Stacking interactions of aromatic ligands in transition metal complexes", Coordination Chemistry Reviews, (2020), 419, 213338
  28. Jelena M. Živković, Ivana M. Stanković, Dragan B. Ninković, Snežana D. Zarić: "Decisive Influence of Environment on Aromatic/Aromatic Interaction Geometries. Comparison of Aromatic/Aromatic Interactions in Crystal Structures of Small Molecules and in Protein Structures" Cryst. Growth Des. (2021) 21, 1898-1904
  29. Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić: "New type of aromatic π-systems for anion recognition. Strong anion-π and C-H···anion interactions between halides and aromatic ligands in half-sandwich compounds" Chemistry Eur. J., accepted

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