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Fields of interest:
Mechanisms of organic reactions (experimental and computational)
Protonation and deprotonation studies in the ground and the excited states
Electronic structure of strained organic and organometallic molecules
Application of high pressure in organic synthesis

Recent publications:
D. Margetić, Y. Murata, K. Komatsu, M. Eckert-Maksić:
"Synthesis, X-ray and DFT Study of the Double Bond Pyramidalization in 1, 7, 8, 9-Tetraphenyl-4, 10, 10-trimethyl-4-aza-10-silatricyclo[5.2.1.0.2, 6]deca-8-ene-3, 5-dione and its Germanium Analogue", Organometallics, 25 (2006) 111-117.

M. Eckert-Maksić i Z. Glasovac:
?Ab initio Study of ?-Substituents on Acidity of Benzocyclopropene"
J. Phys. Org. Chem. (2005), 763-772.

O. Mo, M. Yanez, M. Eckert-Maksić, Z. Maksić, I. Alkorta, J. Elguero:
"Periodic Trends in Bond Dissociation Energies. A Theoretical Study"
J. Phys. Chem (2005), 4359-4365.

M. Eckert-Maksić i Z. Glasovac:
"Cycloproparenyl Anions - From Models to Real Systems"
Pure &Applied Chem. (2005), 1835-1850.

M. Eckert-Maksić, D. Margetić, S. I. Kirin, D. Milić, D. Matković-Čalogović:
"Synthesis of Fused Norbornenes containing two 7-Metallonorbornene Units Assisted by High Pressure.",
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 21 (2005), 4612-4620.

Z. Glasovac, B. Kovačević, E. Meštrović, M. Eckert-Maksić:
"Synthesis and Properties of Novel Guanidine Bases. N, N', N'' tris(3 dimethylaminopropyl)-guanidine",
Tetrahedron Letters 46 (2005), 8733-8736.

I. Alkorta, J. Elguero, M. Eckert-Maksić i Z. B. Maksić:
"Influence of the H/F replacement on the homoaromaticity of homotropylium ion: a GIAO/DFT theoretical study"
Tetrahedron 60 (2004) 2259-2265.

I. Antol, M. Eckert-Maksić, H. Lischka i Z. B. Maksić:
"On the Bond-Stretch Isomerism in Benzo[1, 2:4, 5]dicyclobutadiene System - An Ab Initio MR-AQCC Study"
Chem. Phys. Chem. 5 (2004) 975-981.

I. Zrinski, N. Novak-Coumbassa i M. Eckert-Maksić:
"Preparation of Novel Trialkylgermyl Derivatives of Trimethylsilylethoxycarbonylcyclopropene"
Organometallics 23 (2004) 2806-2809.

I. Antol, M. Eckert-Maksić i H. Lischka:
"Ab initio MR-CISD Study of Gas-phase Basicity of Formamide in the First Excited Singlet State"
J. Chem. Phys. A. 108 (2004) 10317-10325.