Chemical Institute. A.M. Butlerov of Kazan Federal University

The history of chemistry at Kazan University originates from its foundation: then the first chemical laboratories were opened at the departments of "Chemistry and Metallurgy" and "Technology and Sciences relating to trade and factories." The works of eminent chemists - K. K. Klaus , N. N. Zinina , A. M. Butlerov , V. V. Markovnikov , A. M. Zaitsev , E. E. Wagner , A. E. Arbuzova , B. A. Arbuzov , A. N. Pudovik , V. S. Abramova - laid the foundations of the Kazan Chemical School , which gained world fame.

In 1933, as a result of the reorganization of Soviet universities at the KSU, the Faculty of Chemistry was opened, and on April 21, 2003, based on the decision of the Academic Council of Kazan State University, the Kh. A. M. Butlerov by merging NIHI them. A.M. Butlerov and chemical faculty of KSU.

Scientists working in the chemical institute left a deep imprint on the history of science. So, A. M. Butlerov by 1858 formulated the Theory of Chemical Structure . The year 1841 is known for developing the method of industrial production of synthetic aniline N. N. Zinin. In 1844, K.K. Klaus discovered and investigated the chemical element ruthenium , the only element in nature that was discovered in Russia. VV Markovnikov discovered regularities of the regioselective addition of acids and water by multiple bonds , and AM Zaitsev, on the contrary, the elimination of acid molecules and water with the formation of unsaturated compounds . A.E. Arbuzov and B.A. Arbuzov, A.N. Pudovik, V.S. Abramov are also widely known in organic and organoelemental chemistry. ^[one]

Deans

Feoktist Ivanovich Bogoyavlensky (1933-1935)
Vasily Vitalyevich Evlampiev (1935—1939)
Fayzi Fayzullovich Fayzullin (1939—1941)
Boris Alexandrovich Arbuzov (1941-1950)
Arkady Nikolaevich Pudovik (1950-1958)
Fayzi Fayzullovich Fayzullin (1958—1960)
Vera Fedorovna Toropova (1960–1965)
Alexander Ivanovich Kostromin (1965—1968)
Alexander Ivanovich Konovalov (1968-1972)
Irina Vadimovna Konovalova (1972-1987)
Galina Alekseevna Chmutova (1987–1992)
Nikolai Alekseevich Ulakhovich (1992–1998)
Vladimir Ivanovich Galkin (from 1998 to the present)

Chairs

Department of Analytical Chemistry
Department of High Molecular and Organoelement Compounds
Department of Inorganic Chemistry
Department of Organic Chemistry
Department of Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemical Education

Departments

Department of Analytical Chemistry
Department of Inorganic and Coordination Chemistry
Department of Organic Chemistry
Department of Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry of Organoelement Compounds

Department of Analytical Chemistry

The department has a department of analytical chemistry and a laboratory of bioelectrochemical and biosensor research, conducting research in the field of electrochemical methods of analysis using chemically modified electrodes and biosensors.
The head of the department is Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor Gennady Arturovich Evtyugin.
The department carries out work in the field of:

• the development of chemically modified electrodes for the determination of oxidizable organic compounds;
• creation of enzyme and DNA sensors for the detection of compounds of biological significance - toxins, metabolites, pesticides;
• immunochemical analysis;
• search for new methods for coulometric and voltammetric determination of antioxidants - vitamins, food additives, drugs, as well as group assessment of food products and other complex objects on the content of these compounds;
• potentiometric sensors based on macrocyclic receptors for group and individual determination of inorganic and organic ions;
• determining DNA damage and creating hybrid materials with DNA and metal nanoparticles;
• synthesis and characteristics of various organophosphorus compounds - phosphine oxides, aminophosphonates, phosphabetins, which are used in membrane technologies for purification and selective concentration of metal ions, as well as in the composition of ion-selective electrodes.

The department maintains contacts with many academic institutions and major universities in Russia and abroad: Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov , Kazan National Research University , Comenius University (Slovakia), Tor Vergata University (Italy). Postgraduate students and young members of the department regularly undergo internships abroad and participate in international and domestic research projects within the framework of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Ministry of Education and Science and academic exchange programs. Employees of the department are actively involved in the preparation and release of collective monographs of the “Problems of Analytical Chemistry” series (“Nauka” publishing house), reflecting in them their experience in solving analytical problems in related fields, such as medicine and pharmacy. ^[2]

Department of High Molecular and Organoelement Compounds

Research topics: synthesis of new organophosphorus and organoelement compounds, the study of their spatial and electronic structure, intramolecular electronic interactions, reactivity, reaction mechanisms.
From the moment of its foundation (1948) and until death (February 2006), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Arkady Nikolayevich Pudovik worked at the department, who was the founder of the department and held the position of head until 1987.
Head of the Department is Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor Vladimir Ivanovich Galkin.
The department carries out work in the field of:

• theoretical and experimental studies of the relationship of the structure and reactivity of phosphorus compounds of various coordination and derivatives of other non-transition elements; development of effective methods for the synthesis of new substances;
• obtaining and studying the properties of a new generation of bioactive, complexing, extraction, ionophore, membrane-transport and other practically useful substances based on polyfunctional phosphorus compounds;
• directional synthesis of physiologically active substances for medicine and veterinary medicine based on the biomimetic approach ^[3] ;
• studying stereoselective processes involving organic, organoelemental, and coordination compounds;
• the use of metal-complex compounds for chemo and regioselective catalytic and stoichiometric functionalization of organic compounds that do not exhibit reactivity and / or selectivity for hydrophosphoryl compounds under conditions of classical synthesis of organophosphorus compounds.

Graduate of the Department of VM & EOS is Academician of RAS Oleg Sinyashin , Director of the Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry. A. E. Arbuzov of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Director of the Chemical Institute Vladimir Ivanovich Galkin, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Professor Rafael Askhatovich Cherkasov and many other scientists working both in the Russian Federation and abroad.

Department of Inorganic Chemistry

The department trains specialists in inorganic and coordination chemistry, conducts classes in the disciplines "General Chemistry" and "Inorganic Chemistry" in the chemical, biological, geographical, geological, environmental and physical faculties. In the framework of the specialization “Inorganic Chemistry”, lectures are given on the chemistry of complex compounds, the synthesis of inorganic compounds, the theory of solutions, optical and electrochemical methods for studying equilibria in solutions, magnetochemistry and radio-spectroscopy of coordination compounds, equilibria in heterogeneous inorganic systems, the theory of symmetry in coordination chemistry, supramolecular inorganic chemistry and cluster chemistry. In addition to the general course of inorganic chemistry, courses on metrology, the fundamentals of bioinorganic chemistry, technogenic systems and environmental risk, chemistry in ecology, computers in chemical calculations, and many others are given for chemists of the faculty.
The head of the department is Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor Rustem Rafaelevich Amirov.
The department successfully develops scientific work. The main goal of the research is the development of new approaches to the study of the composition, stability, structure of coordination metal compounds in various condensed media, kinetics and mechanisms of fast substitution reactions, as well as the synthesis of compounds with desired properties. The thermodynamics of formation reactions and the structure of coordination compounds of metals with various organic ligands, including bioactive ones, were studied, and the laws of solvant, ligand, proton, and electronic exchange reactions in solutions of coordination compounds were established. Based on fundamental research, a number of compounds with high antitumor activity have been synthesized.
The department carries out work in the field of:

• studies of the complex formation processes in supramolecular systems — organized surfactant ensembles and macrocyclic ligands;
• studies of coordination compounds of iron (III) and manganese (II) for magnetic resonance imaging ;
• obtaining new types of hybrid organo-inorganic functional materials based on nanoscale hyperbranched structures.

The results of these studies are of fundamental value in the field of coordination chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, chemistry of nanomaterials, and pharmaceutical chemistry. The proposed models and the physicochemical principles of the self-assembly of nanoscale hyperbranched polymers will determine new approaches to understanding the mechanisms of gene transfection and targeted drug delivery.

Department of Organic Chemistry

The department carries out work at the junction of organic chemistry (chemistry of natural compounds, chemistry of macrocyclic compounds, chemistry of organoelemental compounds), supramolecular chemistry (chemistry of solutions and self-processes), molecular biology.
The head of the department is Igor Sergeevich Antipin, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor
The department conducts research in the field of:

• the creation of non-viral transfection agents, the development of drugs for biotechnological production and gene therapy;
• creating new programmable materials based on hybrid nanoparticles for medical and biochemical applications;
• development of methods for directional synthesis, the study of the structure and properties of new sulfur derivatives of five-membered oxygen- and nitrogen-containing heterocycles;
• search for chemo, regio and stereoselective reactions of tylation, amination, oxidation in order to create new antimicrobial preparations based on the heterocycles under study;
• in collaboration with biologists, new principles are being developed for the control of pathogenic microflora. Develop modern methods of organic synthesis.

Since 2012, the department has opened a joint Russian-French magistracy in chemoinformatics and molecular modeling, graduates of which can receive two degrees: Kazan and Strasbourg universities. The Department of Organic Chemistry actively cooperates with the Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry. A. E. Arbuzov of the Russian Academy of Sciences , students perform research in the laboratories "Chemistry of Calixarenes", "Phosphorus-containing analogues of natural compounds", "Chemistry of heterocyclic compounds" and many others.

Department of Physical Chemistry

Currently, the department is developing various scientific areas that cover the entire main spectrum of classical physical chemistry: thermodynamics, kinetics, electrochemistry, catalysis, sorption processes. All these scientific areas are united by the objects of research - organic compounds. In recent years, members of the Department of Physical Chemistry have spoken at conferences in many countries: Canada, Poland, South Africa, Italy, Germany, Portugal, the Czech Republic, the United States, Ireland, Croatia, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Brazil.
Head of Department - Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor Boris Nikolaevich Solomonov
The department carries out work in the field of:

• physical chemistry of supramolecular systems, studying intermolecular interactions of gaseous substances with solid sorbents;
• thermodynamics of clrato formation of supramolecular receptors with organic compounds;
• studies of the thermal stability of supramolecular receptors and inclusion compounds formed with their participation, and the study of the receptor properties of nanoscale layers of supramolecular receptors;
• developing new methods for studying the effect of pressure on the reactivity and thermodynamics of organic reactions;
• creation of new industrial catalysts for petrochemical synthesis, including using nanotechnologies;
• studying the physicochemical principles of the functioning of proteins in non-aqueous media;
• research in the field of studying the spatial and electronic structure of organic and organoelement compounds;
• development of new methods for the electrochemical synthesis of organic compounds;
• fundamental problems of intermolecular interactions in solutions of organic non-electrolytes, thermodynamic phase transitions.

Department of Chemical Education

The department was established in 1934 in the Kazan Teachers' Institute with the aim of fundamental training of future teachers of chemistry. In November 2011, the Department of Chemical Education as a structural unit became part of the Chemical Institute. A.M. Butlerov of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. Scientific and pedagogical studies were combined with fundamental and applied works in chemistry.
Of great interest are the scientific and practical international, All-Russian and regional conferences on chemical education organized by the department. The department has letters of thanks from school principals for the scientific and methodological preparation of students for teaching practice. Today, the educational process at the department is carried out by 3 doctors of science, 5 candidates of science. Since 2010, retraining of teachers in the direction of "Teacher of Chemistry".
The head of the department is Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences Suriya Irekovna Gilmanshina
The department conducts research in the field of:

• thiophosphorylated derivatives of resorcinol and calixarenes;
• studies of phosphorylated unsaturated compounds based on petrochemical and timber chemical raw materials;
• obtaining and theoretical study of phosphabetins and their derivatives (phosphonium salts, carboxylate complexes of metals);
• the search for liquid fertilizer-stimulating compositions based on trace elements.

In general, over the 30-year period, about 300 works were published, the majority in the central academic publications, and six thematic collections were published.

Currently, there is training in the following specialties:

• 03/04/01 - Chemistry Bachelor;
• 04.05.01 - Fundamental and applied chemistry specialty;
• 04.04.01 - Chemistry Master;
• 44.03.01 - Pedagogical education undergraduate. ^[four]

By 2015—2016 academic year, the institute has masters programs:

• "Chemoinformatics and molecular modeling";
• "Chemistry of supramolecular nano- and biosystems";
• "Methods of analytical chemistry";
• "Physico-chemical methods in chemistry";
• "Petrochemistry and catalysis." ^[five]

Общее количество студентов, обучающихся по программам специалитета, бакалавриата и магистратуры, составляет 515 (данные на май 2017 года).
Кафедры Химического института проводят подготовку аспирантов по профилям:

• 02.00.01 — неорганическая химия;
• 02.00.02 — аналитическая химия;
• 02.00.03 — органическая химия;
• 02.00.04 — физическая химия;
• 02.00.08 — химия элементоорганических соединений.

В Химическом институте работает два диссертационных совета по защите в области химических наук:

• Д 212.081.03 при ФГАОУ ВО "Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет"; специальности, по которым проводятся защиты:

02.00.01 — неорганическая химия, 02.00.08 — химия элементоорганических соединений; председатель Совета д.х.н., проф. В. И. Галкин.

• Д 212.081.30 при ФГАОУ ВО "Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет"; специальности, по которым проводятся защиты:

02.00.02 — аналитическая химия, 02.00.03 — органическая химия; председатель Совета д.х.н., проф. И. С. Антипин. ^[6]

Основной корпус института расположен на пересечении улиц Кремлевской и Лобачевского. Это четырехэтажное здание, построенное в 1953 году в стиле советского неоклассицизма, архитектор А. Г. Бикчентаев. Здание музея Казанской химической школы, находящееся во внутреннем дворике главного здания университета, построено в 30-х годах 19 века в классическом стиле, архитектор М. П. Коринфский .
В 2015 году завершилось возведение крупного лабораторного корпуса во дворе Химического института. В 7-этажном здании разместились учебные аудитории и лаборатории кафедр Химического института, Института геологии и нефтегазовых технологий , Института физики . Здание построено при поддержке президента Татарстана Р. Н. Минниханова и ОАО «Таиф» ^[7] .

Изначально в этом двухэтажном здании находились первая химическая лаборатория Казанского университета и физическая лаборатория. Первым преподавателем стал Н. Н. Зинин, который, научившись за границей новой методике преподавания химии, стал успешно применять её в стенах Казанского университета. Методика эта заключалась в сочетании практических и лекционных занятий, что хорошо знакомо и современным студентам.
В химической лаборатории происходило не только знакомство с уже известными научными исследованиями в области химии, но и совершались открытия, которые принесли славу Казанскому университету.
Музей Казанской химической школы совсем не похож на остальные музеи. Он, скорее, напоминает дом-музей: здесь нет выставочных витрин, табличек, запрещающих фотосъемку. Экспонаты хранятся в старинных стеклянных шкафах. В музее царит рабочая атмосфера: на письменном столе в кабинете Бутлерова лежат канцелярские принадлежности, справочники по химии разных годов и даже столетий не лежат под стеклом, а стоят в шкафах.
В наши дни в главном зале музея проводятся лекционные и семинарские занятия, защита кандидатских и докторских диссертаций. В боковых комнатах функционируют современные лаборатории ^[8] .

• Химический институт долго и плодотворно занимается подготовкой школьников Республики Татарстан и Российской Федерации к школьным химическим олимпиадам. В разное время научными руководителями российской команды школьников на Международную химическую олимпиаду являлись преподаватели Химического института Андрей Николаевич Ведерников, Аркадий Искандерович Курамшин и Игорь Алексеевич Седов ^{[9] [10]} .
• Старое здание Химического института с момента постройки в 1953 году было не только лабораторным корпусом химического факультета КГУ, в разные времена в нём также располагались историко-филологический факультет КГУ, военная кафедра, некоторые помещения даже использовались как общежития для молодых преподавателей и аспирантов университета. ^[one]
• На протяжении почти 10 лет (с 2006) в Химическом институте выпускается студенческая газета "Хи.Жи.На. - Хи мия, Жи знь, На ука", в которой освещаются события института, университета, новости науки, а также познавательные статьи и интересные викторины.