[dr Dusan P. Malenov]

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

Laboratory:   575

E-mail:   malenov@chem.bg.ac.rs

Personal data

Born on February 21, 1987 in Vršac, Serbia. Single. Speaks Serbian, English and Spanish language.

Education and qualifications

2006-2011: Basic academic (BSc) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2011-2012: Master academic (MSc) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2012-2018: Doctoral academic (PhD) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

History of employment

2013-2015: Junior research assistant / Innovative Centre of the Faculty of Chemistry in Belgrade, Ltd. (Belgrade, Serbia)

2016-2019: Teaching assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2019-2022: Assistant with phd / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2022: Senior research associate / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2022: Assistant professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

Scientific interest

  • Computational chemistry
  • Noncovalent interactions of π-systems
  • Stacking interactions of non-aromatic systems
  • Coordination chemistry
  • Crystallography

Awards and merits

2009: Scholarship of Foundation for Development of Scientific and Artistic Youth of Republic of Serbia
from 2009 to 2012

2009: DAAD scholarship - special program for Serbia
Research stay at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany (July - August)

2010: Award of Faculty of Chemistry for the best student of the Graduate Chemist program

2012: Dositeja scholarship, Fund for Young Talents

2012: Best poster prize at XIX conference of the Serbian Crystallographic Society

2013: Scholarship of Ministry of education, science and technological development for PhD students

2013: DAAD research grant
Research stay at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany (June - August)

2013: Nenad M. Kostić Foundation Award for excellent master's thesis

2014: Research stay at Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg (October)
SCOPES project SupraChem@Balkans.eu

2014: Research stay at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany (July - August)

2015: Best oral presentation prize at XXII conference of the Serbian Crystallographic Society

Other activities

Member of the Committee for Promotion of the Faculty of Chemistry from November 10, 2021 till October 12, 2023.

Editor of journal of students of Faculty of Chemistry - "Pozitron" (2014-2017).

Senior editor in scientific journal Open Chemistry (since 2024).

Educational activities

Participation in research projects

Finished projects:

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Representative references

Poglavlja u knjigama/Book chapters:

1) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Novel Parallel Stacking Interactions of Aromatic Molecules, In QUANTUM NANOSYSTEMS: STRUCTURE, PROPERTIES AND INTERACTIONS (2014) 355-383; ISBN: 978-1-926895-90-1; Apple Academics, Ontario-New Jersey, Canada-USA.

2) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Parallel Interactions of Aromatic Molecules at Large Horizontal Displacements, In NON-COVALENT INTERACTIONS IN THE SYNTHESIS AND DESIGN OF NEW COMPOUNDS (2016) 241-260; ISBN: 978-1-119-10989-1; Wiley, New Jersey, USA. 

3) Dušan P. Malenov, Ivana S. Antonijević, Snežana D. Zarić, Large Horizontal Displacements of Benzene-Benzene Stacking Interactions in Co-crystals, In MULTI-COMPONENT CRYSTALS: SYNTHESIS, CONCEPTS, FUNCTION (2017) 255-271; ISBN: 978-3-11-046495-5; De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany.

 

Radovi u naučnim časopisima/Papers in scientific journals:

1) Dušan P. Malenov, Goran V. Janjić, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Snežana D. Zarić, Mutual influence of parallel, CH/O, OH/π and lone pair/π interactions in water/benzene/water system, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 1018 (2013) 59-65.

2) Dušan P. Malenov, Dragan B. Ninković, Dušan N. Sredojević, Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking of Benzene with Metal Chelates: Calculated CCSD(T)/CBS Interaction Energies and Potential Energy Curves, ChemPhysChem 15 (2014) 2458-2461.

3) Dušan P. Malenov, Dragan B. Ninković, Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking of Metal Chelates with Benzene: Can Dispersion-Corrected DFT Be Used to Calculate Organic-Inorganic Stacking?, ChemPhysChem 16 (2015) 761-768.

4) Dušan P. Malenov, Jovan Lj. Dragelj, Goran V. Janjić, Snežana D. Zarić, Coordinating Benzenes Stack Stronger than Noncoordinating Benzenes, even at Large Horizontal Displacements, Crystal Growth and Design 16 (2016) 4169-4172.

5) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Parallel Interactions of Aromatic and Heteroaromatic Molecules, Hemijska Industrija 70 (2016) 649-659.

6) Dušan P. Malenov, Goran V. Janjić, Vesna B. Medaković, Michael B. Hall, Snežana D. Zarić, Noncovalent Bonding: Stacking Interactions of Chelate Rings of Transition Metal Complexes, Coordination Chemistry Reviews 345 (2017) 318-341. 

7) 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 - A European Journal 23 (2017) 11046-11053.

8) Dušan P. Malenov, Michael B. Hall, Snežana D. Zarić, Influence of metal ion on chelate-aryl stacking interactions, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 118 (2018) e25629.

9) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Chelated metal ions modulate the strength and geometry of stacking interactions: energies and potential energy surfaces for chelate-chelate stacking, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20 (2018) 14053-14060.

10) Dušan P. Malenov, Ivana S. Antonijević, Michael B. Hall, Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking of Cyclopentadienyl Organometallic Sandwich and Half-Sandwich Compounds. Strong Interactions of Sandwiches at Large Offsets, CrystEngComm 20 (2018) 4506-4514.

11) Dušan P. Malenov, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Michael B. Hall, Edward N. Brothers, Snežana D. Zarić, Influence of Chelate Ring Type on Chelate-Chelate and Chelate-Aryl Stacking: The Case of Nickel Bis(Dithiolene), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21 (2019) 1198-1206.

12) Ivana S. Antonijević, Dušan P. Malenov, Michael B. Hall, Snežana D. Zarić, Study of stacking interactions between two neutral tetrathiafulvalene molecules in Cambridge Structural Database crystal structures and by quantum chemical calculations, Acta Crystallographica B75 (2019) 1-7.

13) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Strong stacking interactions of metal-chelate rings are caused by substantial electrostatic component, Dalton Transactions 48 (2019) 6328-6332. (part of the themed collection Dalton Transactions 2019 HOT Articles) 

14) Dušan P. Malenov, Andrea J. Aladić, Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking Interactions of Borazine: Important Stacking at Large Horizontal Displacements and Dihydrogen Bonding Governed by Electrostatic Potentials of Borazine, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21 (2019) 24554-24564.

15) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking interactions between ruthenium p-cymene complexes. Combined crystallographic and density functional study, CrystEngComm 21 (2019) 7204-7210. (front cover article) (part of the themed collection CrystEngComm 2019 HOT Articles)

16) Dušan P. Malenov, Jelena P. Blagojević Filipović, Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking interactions of the methylated cyclopentadienyl ligands in the crystal structures of transition metal complexes, Acta Crystallographica B76 (2020) 252-258.

17) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Strong stacking interactions at large horizontal displacements of tropylium and cyclooctatetraenide ligands of transition metal complexes: crystallographic and DFT study, CrystEngComm 22 (2020) 3831-3839.

18) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking interactions between indenyl ligands of transition metal complexes: crystallographic and density functional study, Crystal Growth and Design 20 (2020) 4491-4502.

19) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking interactions of aromatic ligands in transition metal complexes, Coordination Chemistry Reviews 419 (2020) 213338.

20) 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 - A European Journal 27 (2021) 17862-17872.

21) Lidija Radovanović, Dušan P. Malenov, Marko V. Rodić, Aleksandar Kremenović, Jelena Rogan, Crystallographic, spectroscopic, thermal and computational studies of polymeric cobalt(II)-mellitate complex with 2,2'-bipyridine, Journal of Molecular Structure 1252 (2022) 132202.

22) Dušan P. Malenov, Snežana D. Zarić, Recognizing New Types of Stacking Interactions by Analyzing Data in the Cambridge Structural Database, Chemistry 5 (2023) 2513-2541.

23) Jasna V. Džunuzović, Ivan S. Stefanović, Enis S. Džunuzović, Tijana S. Kovač, Dušan P. Malenov, Andrea Basagni, Carla Marega, Fabrication of Polycaprolactone-Based Polyurethanes with Enhanced Thermal Stability, Polymers 16 (2024) 1812.

24) Dušan P. Malenov, Jelena M. Živković, Dubravka Z. Vojislavljević-Vasilev, Maria Andrea Mroginski, Snežana D. Zarić, Can coordinated water be a good hydrogen bond acceptor? Crystallographic and quantum chemical study, Crystal Growth and Design 24 (2024) 8223-8233.