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Fields of interest:

• Coordination chemistry
• Computational chemistry
• Non covalent interactions
• Hydrogen bonding
• Bioinorganic chemistry
• Reaction mechanisms

Recent publications:

S.D. Zarić, D. Popović and E.W. Knapp:
Factors Determining the Orientation of Axially Coordinated Imidazoles in Heme-Proteins,
Biochemistry, Vol. 40 (2001), pp. 7914-7928.

D. Popović, A. Žmirić, S.D. Zarić and E.W. Knapp:
Energetics of Radical Transfer in DNA Photolyase,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 124, (2002), pp. 3775-3782.

G.A. Bogdanović, A. Spasojević-de Biré and S. D. Zarić:
Evidence of a C-H.... interaction between an organic moiety and a chelate ring in transition metal complexes based on crystal structures and computations,
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2002), 1599-1602.

S.D. Zarić:
Metal ligand aromatic cation- interactions,
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2197-2209 (2003).

Z.D. Tomić, S.B. Novaković and S.D. Zarić:
Intermolecular interactions between chelate rings and phenyl rings in square-planar copper(II) complexes,
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., Vol. 11, (2004), 2215-2218.

V.B. Medaković, M.K. Milčić, G.A. Bogdanović and S.D. Zarić:
C-H…p interactions in the metal-porphyrin complexes with chelate ring as the H acceptor, J. Inorg. Biochem., Vol. 98, (2004), 1867-1873.

Z.D. Tomić, D. Sredojević and S.D. Zarić:
Stacking Interactions between Chelate and Phenyl Rings in Square-Planar Transition Metal Complexes,
Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 6, (2006), pp. 29-31.

A.A. Rakić, V.B. Medaković and S.D. Zarić:
Orientations of axially coordinated imidazoles and pyridines in crystal structures of model systems of cytochromes,
J. Inorg. Biochem., Vol. 100, (2006), pp. 133-142.

M.K. Milčić, V.B. Medaković, D.N. Sredojević, N.O. Juranić and S.D. Zarić:
Electron delocalization mediates the metal-dependent capacity for CH/pi interactions of acetylacetonato chelates,
Inorg. Chem., Vol. 45, (2006), pp. 4755-4763.

B.W. Kail, L.M. Perez, S.D. Zarić, A.J. Millar, C.G. Young, M.B. Hall and P. Basu:
Mechanistic Investigation of the Oxygen-Atom-Transfer Reactivity of Dioxo-molybdenum(VI) Complexes,
Chem. Eur. J., (2006), pp. 7501-7509.