The use of organoelement compounds of some elements of groups III, V and peroxides in the synthesis of organic compounds and polymers. In memory of professor V.A. Dodonov

Professor Viktor Alekseevich Dodonov (11.07.1933 - 27.09.2021) was the Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Chemical Faculty of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod from 1971 to 2016. He was an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, full member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of the Russian Federation, Fulbright Professor, the author of 42 patents, 500 scientific articles, the Head of the Scientific and Pedagogical school “Organic and organoelement chemistry: radical reactions in the liquid phase”. He synthesized new classes of organic and organoelement peroxides based on non-transition elements. He created unique adhesives based on an amine complex with an organoboronic compound, capable of gluing polymers with low surface energy at room temperature (polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, and especially Teflon). He showed the possibility of oxidation of hydrocarbons and their derivatives (alkanes, alkenes, alkyl-substituted aromatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, ketones, ethers and esters, and sulfides) at room temperature with tert -butylhydroperoxide in the presence of the aluminum and bismuth compounds. He found that under certain conditions the air oxygen became the main participant in the reaction, while peroxide and metal act as catalysts. He used phenyl derivatives of antimony and bismuth under metal complex catalysis by copper and palladium compounds for selective O-, N-, C-phenylation of organic substances including OH, NH, C=C-H groups under mild conditions at 20-50 °C. He studied the processes of gas-phase decomposition of organometallic compounds of chromium and nickel in order to obtain metal-containing (metallic, carbide, oxide) films and coatings.