Victor Kogan
Professor
Rassian Academy of Sciences
Russia
Biography
Victor M. Kogan graduated from Oil and Gas University and since 1979 he serves for the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of sciences as a researcher. From 2009 he heads the Institute Laboratory of Catalysis by Transition Metals and their Compounds.
Research Interest
His research interests include studies of mechanisms of catalytic reactions, such as olefin and ring olefin metathesis; thiophene hydrodesulfurization, Fischer-Tropsch and alcohol synthesis over p- and d-metals and their sulfides; synthesis of alcohol and oxygenates over transition metal compounds; development of new types of catalysts for hydrotreating, hydrogenation and isomerization