Snežana Zarić

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Dr Snežana D. Zarić

Full Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of Belgrade

Date and place of birth: 02. 01. 1962. Jasenovo (Serbia)
e-mail: szaric@chem.bg.ac.rs

Education

  • 1984. Bachelor of science studies – Chemistry, University of Belgrade
  • 1990. Master of science studies – Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Belgrade
  • 1995. Doctoral academic (PhD) studies – Chemistry, University of Belgrade – Department of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

Scientific and academic positions

  • 1986-1995 Teaching assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • 1995-1996 Postdoctoral research associate, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, U.S.A.
  • 1996-1997 Teaching assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2001-2002 Humboldt fellowship, Department of Chemistry, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • 2002-2003 Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, U.S.A.
  • 1997-2003 Assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2002-2003 Research associate, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, U.S.A.
  • 2003-2010 Associate professor / University of Belgrade – Department of Chemistry, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2010.- Full professor / University of Belgrade – Department of Chemistry, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2012-2015 Visiting professor /Texas A&M University at Qatar
  • 2016- Visiting professor /Texas A&M University at Qatar

Research interests

  • Computational chemistry
  • Coordination chemistry
  • Noncovalent interactions

Teaching (Courses)

  • Inorganic chemistry 2
  • Computational chemistry
  • Spectroscopic Methods in Inorganic Chemistry
  • Supramolecular Structures of Transition Metal Complexes
  • Organometallic Chemistry

Selected references

  1. S. D. Zarić, M. Couty and M. B. Hall, “Ab Initio Calculations of the Triplet State of Tungsten Pentacarbonyl Amine: A Model for the Unification of the Preresonance Raman and the Time-Resolved Infrared Experiments”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (1997), 119, 2885-2888.
  2. M. W. George, M. B. Hall, O. S Jin, P. Portius, Xue-Zhong Sun, M. Towrie, H. Wu, X. Yang, and S. D. Zarić, “Understanding the factors affecting the activation of alkane by Cp ‘ Rh(CO)(2) (Cp ‘ = Cp or Cp*)”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America, (2010), 107, 20178-20183.
  3. D. Ž. Veljković, V. B. Medaković, J. M. Andrić, and S. D. Zarić , “C–H/O Interactions of Nucleic Bases with a Water Molecule: A Crystallographic and Quantum Chemical Study”, CrystEngComm (2014), 16, 10089-10096.
  4. A. L. Pitts, A. Wriglesworth, Xue-Zhong Sun, J. A. Calladine, S. D. Zarić, M. W. George, and M. B. Hall, “Carbon – Hydrogen Activation of Cycloalkanes by Cyclopentadienylcarbonylrhodium – A Lifetime Enigma”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2014), 136 (24), 8614–8625.
  5. P. V. Petrović, G. V. Janjić, and S. D. Zarić “Stacking Interactions between Square-Planar Metal Complexes with 2,2′-Bipyridine Ligands. Analysis of Crystal Structures and Quantum Chemical Calculations” Cryst. Growth Des. (2014), 14 (8), 3880–3889.