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Katarina Leko, mag. chem.

Title: Senior expert associate
Location: 218
Public phone number:+385 1 4606 147
Internal phone number:6147
E-mail: E-mail
Department: Division of Physical Chemistry
Graduation year:2015
Employed in this institution since:2016

Teaching

undergraduate

graduate

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

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List of select publications

  1. K. Leko, A. Usenik, N. Cindro, M. Modrušan, J. Požar, G. Horvat, V. Stilinović, T. Hrenar, V. Tomišić, Enhancing the Cation-Binding Ability of Fluorescent Calixarene Derivatives: Structural, Thermodynamic, and Computational Studies, ACS Omega, 2023, 8, 45, 43074–43087.
  2.  L. Kumar, S. G. Dash, K. Leko, D. Trzybiński, N. Bregović, D. Cinčić, M. Arhangelskis, Elucidating mechanochemical reactivity of a ternary halogen-bonded cocrystal system by computational and calorimetric studies, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, 25, 28576–28580.
  3.  A. Usenik, K. Leko, V. Petrović Peroković, Ž. Car, R. Ribić, K. Pičuljan, M. Hanževački, J. Draženović, J. Požar, Hydrophobically driven hosting – what about the guest?, J. Mol. Liq., 2023, 338, 122774.
  4. L. Kumar, K. Leko, V. Nemec, D. Trzybiński, N. Bregović, D. Cinčić, M. Arhangelskis, Computational evaluation of halogen-bonded cocrystals enables prediction of their mechanochemical interconversion reactions, Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 3140–3146.  (2023 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection)
  5.  K. Leko, M. Hanževački, Z. Brkljača, K. Pičuljan, R. Ribić, J. Požar, Solvophobically Driven Complexation of Adamantyl Mannoside with β-Cyclodextrin in Water and Structured Organic Solvents, Chem. – A Eur. J., 2020, 26, 23, 5208–5219. (front cover)

Professional memberships

Member of the Croatian Chemical Society

List of select projects

2021-2024 Collaborator on the project financed by Croatian Science Foundation:
Coordination Reactions of Macrocyclic Ligands in Solution (MACROSOL, IP-2019-04-9560)
(Principal investigator: dr. sc. Vladislav Tomišić, Professor)

 

2016-2019 Collaborator on the project financed by Croatian Science Foundation:

Development of Supramolecular Receptors for Cations and Anions (SupraCAR, IP-2014-09-7309)
(Principal investigator: dr. sc. Vladislav Tomišić, Professor)