Luka Fotović, mag. educ. biol. et chem.

Teaching duties

university undergraduate

• General and Inorganic Chemistry (35805) - exercise

university graduate

• Physical inorganic chemistry (72801) - seminar

Biography

Education at Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb: Diploma thesis (Chemistry and Biology, 2018).

Affiliation and current position: Division of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb: assistant (2018–).

Teaching: Undergraduate studies (General and Inorganic Chemistry -  laboratory work) and graduate studies (seminars: Physical Inorganic Chemistry)

Research interest: crystallography, cocrystallization, mechanochemistry, halogen and hydrogen bonding, organic, metalloorganic and supramolecular synthesis

Scientific papers: co-author of 3 scientific papers indexed in the Current Contents database.

Awards: 

2017 - Rector’s Award for the project Symposium of Students Chemists (SySC)

Participation in research projects: 

Associate researcher on the project New building blocks for the supramolecular design of complex multi-component molecular crystals based on halogen bonds (financed by the Croatian Science Foundation, 2020– )

Published papers recorded in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography Database (CROSBI)

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List of select publications

1. L. Fotović, V. Stilinović, Halogenide anions as halogen and hydrogen bond acceptors in iodopyridinium halogenides, CrystEngComm, 22 (2020), 4039-4046.

2. N. Jakupec, L. Fotović, V. Stilinović, The effect of halogen bonding on protonated hexacyanoferrate networks in hexacyanoferrates of halogenopyridines, CrystEngComm, 22 (2020), 8142-8150.

3. V. Nemec, L. Fotović, T. Vitasović i D. Cinčić, Halogen bonding of the aldehyde oxygen atom in cocrystals of aromatic aldehydes and 1,4-diiodotetrafluorobenzene, CrystEngComm, 21 (2019), 3251–3255.

4. V. Nemec, L. Fotović, T. Friščić i D. Cinčić, A Large Family of Halogen-Bonded Cocrystals Involving Metal–Organic Building Blocks with Open Coordination Sites, Cryst. Growth Des. 17 (2017), 6169–6173.

List of select projects

2018. – 2019., associate researcher on the project: Crystal engineering of multicomponent halogen bonded metal-organic materials: towards supramolecular control over structure and properties (financed by the Croatian Science Foundation)

2020. – , associate researcher on the project:  New building blocks for the supramolecular design of complex multi-component molecular crystals based on halogen bonds (financed by the Croatian Science Foundation)