[dr Bojan Z. Vulovic]

Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd
Department of Organic Chemistry

Phone:   011-3336780

Phone (local):   780

Office:   416A

Laboratory:   416

E-mail:   bvulovic@chem.bg.ac.rs

Personal data

Born on August 8, 1983 in Belgrade, Serbia. Married. Speaks Serbian, English and French language.

Education and qualifications

2002-2007: Undergraduate studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2007-2014: Doctoral academic (PhD) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

History of employment

2007-2009: Teaching assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2009-2016: Assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2017: Assistant professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

Scientific interest

Organic synthesis, organocatalysis, organometallic chemistry.

Other activities

2006 (june - september) Summer research internship at University of Pittsburgh (Professor Peter Wipf)

2007 - Associate councilor in Petnica Science Center

2012 - 2016 Faculty of Chemistry coordinator for science popularization programmes: "Museum Night", "Between Magic and Chemistry" and "Science Festival"

2016 -2017 Postdoctoral fellow in Professor Donald A. Watson's laboratory at University of Delaware

Educational activities

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Representative references

Vulovic, B.; Saicic, R. N."Cooperative dual catalysis: combining organocatalysis and transition-metal catalysis to access heterocyclic componds", Targets in Heterocyclic Systems - Volume 26, 2022, Chapter 13, 277-312.

[link: https://www.soc.chim.it/sites/default/files/ths/26/chapter_13.pdf]

 

1. Trmcic, M.; Vulovic, B.; Zlatar, M.; Saicic, R. N. "Preparation of cyclopropanone 2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy hemiacetals via oxyallyl cation" Arkivoc, 2024, 2, 202312123.

2. Ferjancic, Z.; Bihelovic, F.; Vulovic, B.; Matovic, R.; Trmcic, M.; Jankovic, A.; Pavlovic, M.; Djurkovic, F.; Prodanovic, R.; Djelmas, A. Dj.; Kalicanin, N.; Zlatovic, M.; Sladic,D.; Vallet, T.;  Vignuzzi, M.; Saicic R. N. "Development of iminosugar-based glycosidase inhibitors as drug candidates for SARS-CoV-2 virus via molecular modelling and in vitro studies" Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, 2024, 39, 2289007.

3. Kokic, B.; Vulovic, B.; Jovic, M.; Andrijevic, A.; Ajdacic, V.; Opsenica, I. M. "Strategies for Carbon Electrophile Addition to Carbonyls and Imines by Cobalt Catalysis" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 26, e2023009.

4. Stjepanovic, M.; Jankovic, A.; Vulovic, B.; Saicic, R. N. "Synthetic study on the angular triquinanes" J. Serb. Chem. Soc. 2023, 88 975.

5. Vulovic, B.; Trmcic, M; Matovic, R.; Saicic, R. N. "Cyclization Reactions of Oxyallyl Cation. A Method for Cyclopentane Ring Formation" Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 9618-9621. {2/57, IF=6.555}

6. Bihelovic, F.; Vulovic, B.; Saicic, R. N. "Gold(I)-Catalyzed C-O/C-C Bond-Forming Domino Reactions and Their Synthetic Applications", Isr. J. Chem. 2018, 58, 521-530. [Invited Review] {71/166, IF=2.455}

7. Vulovic, B.; Cinderella, A. P.; Watson, D. A. “Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Monochlorosilanes And Grignard Reagents” ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 8113–8117. {11/146, IF=11.384}

8. Bihelovic, F; Vulovic, B; Saicic, R. N. "Synthesis of Natural Products and the Development of Synthetic Methodology: The Case Study of (–)-Atrop-abyssomicin C", Nat. Prod. Commun. 2017, 12, 1209-1214. {56/60, IF=0.773}

9. Vulovic, B; Watson, D. A. "Heck-Like Reactions Involving Heteroatomic Electrophiles", Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 4996-5009. [Microreview] (among top ten EurJOC "Most Accessed" articles) {19/59, IF=2.834}

10. Cinderella, A. P.; Vulovic, B.; Watson, D. A. "Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Silyl Electrophiles with Alkylzinc Halides: A Silyl-Negishi Reaction", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 7741–7744. (Highlighted in Synfacts, 2017, 13, 861.) {10/166, IF=14.357}

 

11. Vulovic, B.; Maric, I.; Matovic, R.; Saicic, R. N. Synthesis of vinyldihydropyrane by cooperative catalysis, J. Serb. Chem. Soc. 2016, 81, 1335. {131/166, IF=0.822}

12. Vulovic, B.; Kolarski, D.; Bihelovic, F.; Matovic, R.; Gruden, M.; Saicic, R. N. Gold(I)-Catalyzed Domino Cyclizations of Diynes for the Synthesis of Functionalized Cyclohexenone Derivatives. Total Synthesis of (−)-Gabosine H and (−)-6-epi-Gabosine H, Organic Letters, 2016, 18, 3886. Additions and corrections: 2016, 18, 5186-5187.{3/59, IF=6.579}

13. Vulovic, B.; M. Gruden-Pavlovic, M.; Matovic, R. and  Saicic, R. N. "Substrate Stereocontrol in the Intramolecular Organocatalyzed Tsuji–Trost Reaction: Enantioselective Synthesis of Allokainates", Organic Letters, 2014, 16, 34. {4/58, IF=6.364}

14. Vulovic, B.; Bihelovic, F.;  Matovic, R.; and  Saicic, R. N. "Organo-catalyzed Tsuji-Trost reaction: a new method for the closure of five- and six-membered rings", Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 10485. Corrigendum, Tetrahedron, 2010, 66, 3275. {14/56, IF=3.011}

15. Bihelovic, F.; Matovic, R.; Vulovic, B.; and  Saicic, R. N. "Organo-catalyzed cyclizations of pi-allylpalladium complexes: a new method for the construction of five- and six-membered rings", Organic Letters, 2007, 9, 5063. Additions and corrections: 2007, 9, 5649 {4/56, IF=4.802}