Drasko Vidovic

Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4269-3995

EmailDrasko.Vidovic@monash.edu

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Personal profile

Biography

Dr Drasko Vidovic obtained BSc at Simon Fraser University, Canada in 2002. He then moved to University of Texas at Austin, USA, for his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof Alan Cowley. In 2007, after finishing his PhD studies, Dr Vidovic joined the research group of Prof Simon Aldridge at Oxford University, UK. He stated his independent career in Singapore in the late 2010 and joined Monash University as a Senior Lecturer in December 2017.

Research interests

Our main research interests broadly fall within the field of green and sustainable catalysis. We are predominantly developing catalysts based on earth abundant aluminium for various organic transformations, such as Diels Alders cycloadditions, Michael additions, borylations, etc., including polymerization of cyclic dienophiles to create functionalized polyolefins. Our collaborative efforts with a pharmaceutical company Retrotope (https://www.retrotope.com/) are focused on catalytic, site-specific deuteration (H/D exchange) of polyunsaturated fatty acids as means to fight all forms of dementia (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's etc.), atherosclerosis, retinal diseases etc.

Research area keywords

Catalysis
Aluminium
Green and Sustainable Chemistry
ruthenium
deuteration (H/D exchange)
polyunsaturated fatty acids
renewable materials
anti-corrosive materials
lubricants

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Research Output

71 Article
3 Comment / Debate
3 Review Article

Threshold protective effect of deuterated polyunsaturated fatty acids on peroxidation of lipid bilayers

Firsov, A. M., Fomich, M. A., Bekish, A. V., Sharko, O. L., Kotova, E. A., Saal, H. J., Vidovic, D., Shmanai, V. V., Pratt, D. A., Antonenko, Y. N. & Shchepinov, M. S., 2019, In : FEBS Journal. 286, 11, p. 2099-2117 19 p.