dr. sc. Mladen Borovina

Title:	Senior expert associate
Location:	117
Public phone number:	+385 1 460 6305
Internal phone number:	6305
E-mail:	E-mail
Department:	Division of General and Inorganic Chemistry
Graduation year:	2013
PhD graduation year:	2018
Employed in this institution since:	2015

Biography

Education at Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb: Master thesis (Chemistry, 2013), Doctoral thesis (Chemistry, 2018)

Affiliation and current position: Division of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb: expert associate (2019–)

Research interest: crystallography, crystal engineering, supramolecular chemistry, molecular modeling of organic and anorganic compounds, solution and mechanochemical synthesis of transition metal complexes

Scientific papers: co-author of 7 scientific papers indexed in the Current Contents database.

Participation in research projects: 

Associate on "From form to function: Mechanically flexible crystalline materials with controllable responses" (Funded by the Croatian Science Foundation)

Published papers recorded in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography Database

Show publications in CRORIS

List of select publications

1. M. Borovina, I. Kodrin, M. Đaković, "Predicting Supramolecular Connectivity of Metal-Containing Solid-State Assemblies using Calculated Molecular Electrostatic Potential Surfaces", Cryst. Growth Des. 19 (2019) 1985–1995. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01930
2. I. Kodrin, M. Borovina, L. Šmital, J. Valdés-Martínez, C.B. Aakeröy, M. Đaković, " Exploring and predicting intermolecular binding preferences in crystalline Cu (II) coordination complexes", Dalton Trans. 43 (2019), 16222-16232. doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9DT03346G
3. M. Borovina, I. Kodrin, M. Đaković, "Testing the limits of halogen bonding in coordination chemistry", CrystEngComm 5 (2018), 531-549. (article featured on the cover page of the journal) doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CE01989K
4. M. Đaković, M. Borovina, M. Pisačić, C.B. Aakeröy, Ž. Soldin, B.-M. Kukovec, I. Kodrin, "Mechanically responsive crystalline coordination polymers with controllable elasticity", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57 (2018) 14801-14805. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201808687

List of select projects

2020 - current Associate "From form to function: Mechanically flexible crystalline materials with controllable responses" (Funded by the Croatian Science Foundation)

2015-2017 Associate on Engineering crystalline materials using metal complexes and non-covalent interactions (Funded by the Croatian Science Foundation)