The Department of Chemistry and Methods of Its Teaching
The Head of the Department: Vitaliy Serhiiovych Baranovskyi, PhD in Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor
E-mail: kaf_chemistry@chem-bio.com.ua
History of the Department
The Department of Chemistry was established in 1952. In different years, Heads of the Department were Associate Professors Reva F.K., (1952-1955), Stashko N.M. (1955-1965), Krainer Z.Ya. (1965-1975). In 1976 the Department was divided into the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, led by Associate Professors Kuratov T.S. (1976-1984) and Tsarova N.V. (1984-1987), and the Department of Organic and Biological Chemistry, led by Professor Yavonenko O. F. (1976-1982) and Associate Professor Hryshchuk B. D. (1983-1987).
In 1987, the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and the Department of Organic and Biological Chemistry were reunited into the Department of Chemistry, headed by Hryshchuk B.D., Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor.
Since September 1, 2013, the Department of Chemistry has been renamed to the Department of Chemistry and Methods of Its Teaching.
Since September 2018, the Head of the Department has been Baranovskyi V.S., PhD in Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor.
The Department provides the following disciplines for Bachelor’s degree students: General Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biological Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Physical and Chemical Methods of Research, Structure of Matter, High Molecular Weight Compounds, Fundamentals of Chemical Technology, Methods of Teaching Chemistry, Problem Solving in Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic Synthesis, Chemistry of Complex Compounds, Mathematical Methods in Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Synthesis of Biologically Active Substances.
The Department provides the following disciplines for Master’s degree students: Methods of Teaching Chemical Disciplines, Fundamentals of Quantum Chemistry, Theoretical Foundations of Organic Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Statistical and Chemometric Methods in Chemistry, Modern Methods of Analysis and Establishing the Structure of Organic Compounds, Theory and Mechanisms of Chemical Processes, Modern Methods of Organic Synthesis, Supramolecular Chemistry, History of Chemistry, Research Methodology.
Department Staff
Currently the Department employs 8 lecturers: 2 Professors (Kurant V.Z. and Stoliar O.B., Doctors of Biological Sciences), 5 Associate Professors (Baranovskyi V.S., Symchak R.V., Tulaidan H.M., PhDs in Chemical Sciences, Khomenchuk V.O., PhD in Biological Sciences and Hladiuk M.M., PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, 1 Assistant (Petrushka B.M.) and 4 Senior laboratory assistants (Oleksiuk N.I., Holodniuk I.M., Sabat S.I., Skunts T.V.).
Scientific Work of the Department
There are 3 science research laboratories at the Department:
• The laboratory of Chemistry of Unsaturated Compounds (supervisor: Baranovskyi V.S., Associate Professor)
• The laboratory of Comparative Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (supervisor: Stoliar O.B., Professor)
• The laboratory of Ecological Biochemistry (supervisor: Kurant V.Z., Professor).
The Department also provides a postgraduate study in organic chemistry and biological chemistry. 16 graduates of the Department have already successfully defended their doctoral and PhD dissertations.
Lecturers of the Department are working on the development of collective research topics:
• The Dediazoniation Products as Building Blocks of New Bioactive Compounds and Modifiers of Nanocomposite Materials (Associate Professors Baranovskyi V.S., Symchak R.V., Tulaidan H.M.)
• The Multimarker Approach for Assessing the Impact of Hydroelectric Power Plants on the Environment (Stoliar O.B., Professor)
• The Search for Physiological and Biochemical Markers for Assessing Metal Pollution of Freshwater Ecosystems Using Fish (Kurant V.Z., Professor, Khomenchuk V.O., Associate Professor).
The Department cooperates with the leading scientific and educational institutions of Ukraine. Over recent years it carried out a number of joint research projects with leading scientific institutions abroad, led by prof. Stoliar O.B., in particular. International bilateral projects were implemented in cooperation with University of North Carolina (Charlotte, USA), University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria), Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (Hyderabad, India), International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University (Minsk, Republic of Belarus), Balaton Limnological Research Institute (Hungary), Pukiyong National University (Busan, South Korea), University of Reims (Reims, France), Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece), University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia).
The Department has organized a number of international and All-Ukrainian scientific conferences.
Over the past 30 years, the lectures of the Department have published:
• 6 monographs;
• 2 textbooks for university students;
• 28 manuals for students;
• more than 1200 scientific articles in professional scientific publications, in particular 200 articles in journals listed in Scopus and Web of Science scientometric databases,
• 27 patents and 6 copyright certificates have been received.
