NMR Laboratory, Molecule Structure Research Center, Armenian Academy of Sciences

Dr. Henry Panosyan

Head of NMR Laboratory

Address:  Azatutyan Ave.,26, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia

phone:     (37410)-287423

fax:         (37410)-282267

E-mail:    henry@msrc.am

RESEARCH:   NMR of oriented molecules; NMR-Spectroscopy of organic and elementorganic compounds, routine & modern NMR Spectroscopy.

COLLABORATIONS:

    Ad Bax, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health

    Alexander Pines (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

    Nikiolay M. Sergeyev, NMR Lab., Chemistry Department, Moscow State University

EDUCATION:

    Ph.D. in chemistry, Moscow, Institute of Elementorganic Compounds, (1979)

    M.Sc. Yerevan State University, Faculty of Physics (1970)

AWARDS:

 2006   U.S. CRDF Award ARB2-2834-Ye-06 (US Collaborator: Dr. A. Bax, LCP, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)

           " Design of Weakly Aligning Systems Suitable for 3D Biomolecular Structure Determination by NMR Spectroscopy" 

 2002     U.S. CRDF Award ACI-2304-Ye-02 (US Collaborator: Prof. A. Pines, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

           "Structure Determination of Biological Molecules Oriented in Liquid Crystalline Solvents" 

  1997     U.S. CRDF RESC 17-5 Program "NMR Facility at MSRC", Purchase Varian Mercury-300 NMR Spectrometer

  2003      U.S.CRDF Mini Grant AR2-1027-YE-03, "Strenghtenining and Modernization of RESC 17-5"

PUBLICATIONS (more then 150):

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Chukhajian E.H., Nalbandyan M.K., Gevorkyan H.R., Chukhajian El.H., Panosyan H.A., Ayvazyan A.G., Tamazyan R.A., Cyclization of dialkylpropyn-1-yl(allyl)(3-isopropenylpropyn-2-yl)ammonium bromides and water-base cleavage of 2,2-dialkyl-5-methyl-2,6,7,7a-tetrahydro-1H-isoindolium and 2,2-dialkyl-5-methylisoindolinium bromides. J.Heterocycl.Chem., 2008, 45, 687-692.

  2. Sahakyan A.B., Shahkhatuni A.G., Shahkhatuni A.A., Panosyan H.A., Electric field effects on one-bond indirect spin-spin coupling constants and possible biomolecular perspectives. J.Phys.Chem.A, 2008, 112, 16, 3576-3586.

  3. Sahakyan A.B., Shahkhatuni A.A., Shahkhatuni A.G., Panosyan H.A., Dielectric permittivity and temperature effects on spin – spin couplings studied on acetonitrile. Magn.Reson.Chem., 2008, 46, 1, 63-68.

  4. Sahakyan A.B., Shahkhatuni A.G., Shahkhatuni A.A., Panosyan H.A., Biphenyls by NMR Spectroscopy of Oriented Molecules. Magn.Reson.Chem., 2008, 46, 2, 144-149.

  5. Shahkhatuni A.A., Shahkhatuni A.G., Panosyan H.A., Sahakyan A.B., Byeon I.-J.L., Gronenborn A.M., Assessment of solvent effects: do weak alignment media affect the structure of the solute? Magn.Reson.Chem., 2007, 45, 7, 557-563.

  6. Jokhadze G., Machaidze M., Panosyan H., Chu C.C., Katsarawa R., Synthesis and characterization of functional elastomeric poly(ester amide) co-polymers. J.Biomater.Sci.Polymer.Edn., 2007, 18, 4, 411-438.

  7. Shahkhatuni A.G., Shahkhatuni A.A., Panosyan H.A., Park G.H.J., Martin R.W., Pines A., NMR studies of 13C-iodomethane: Different behavior in thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals. J.Phys.Chem.A, 2004, 108, 33, 6809-6813.

  8. Park G.H.J., Martin R.W., Sakellariou D., Pines A., Shahkhatuni A.G., Shahkhatuni A.A., Panosyan H.A., Variable angle spinning (VAS) NMR study of solvent effects in liquid crystalline solutions of 13C-iodomethane. Chem.Phys.Lett., 2004, 399, 1-3, 196-199.

  9. Chukhajian E.O., Gevorkyan H.R., Chukhajian El.O., Shakhatuni K.G., Panosyan H.A., Tamazyan R.A., A new intramolecular recyclization in water-base cleaverage reaction of 2,2-dialkyl-4-hydroxymethyl benz[f] iso indolinium bromides and chlorides. J.Heterocycl.Chem., 2003, 40, 1059-1063.

PERSONAL DATA:

Born in Yerevan on 12 March 1947. Happily married to Narine Mailyan, research scientist in field of quantum chemistry. Two daughters, Anna and Maria.

Last Update: November 22th, 2007
By: Henry Panosyan (henry@msrc.am)