Dušan Ž. Veljković, Ph.D.

Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd
Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry

Laboratory:   575

E-mail:   vdusan@chem.bg.ac.rs

Personal Web site:   http://sites.google.com/site/hemijskifakultet/

Personal data

Born on February 15, 1984 in Belgrade, Serbia. Married. Speaks Serbian, English and German language.

Education and qualifications

2003-2008: Undergraduate studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2008-2014: Doctoral academic (PhD) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

History of employment

2009-2009: Junior research assistant / Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy (Belgrade, Serbia)

2009-2010: Junior research assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2010-2011: Research assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2011-2016: Teaching assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2016-2021: Assistant professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2021: Associate professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

Scientific interest

Theoretical chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Coordination chemistry

Awards and merits

2010: DAAD scholarship
01.08.2010.-31.08.2010. DAAD scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden

2015: Fellowship of Ministry of education, science and technological development of the Republic of Serbia for postdoctoral training of researchers

2017: „Dr Dubravko Rodić“ Award

Other activities

Member of Royal Society of Chemistry. (e-membership)

Member of Serbian Crystallographic Society from 2009.

Member of the Committee for Self-evaluation from July 12, 2018 till October 8, 2020.

Member of the Committee for Self-evaluation from October 8, 2020.

Deputy chairman of the Board of the Faculty of Chemistry from June 22, 2023.

- Principal investigator - bilateral collaboration between Republic of Serbia and Republic of France (2018-2019.) Project number: 451-03-01963/2017-09/11.

- Secretary of Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry (2014-2015).

- Secretary of Organizing Committee of International Summer School on Supramolecular Chemistry in Belgrade,  August 04-06, 2013

- Participant in international project „SupraChem@Balkans.eu“ funded by SCOPES 2009-2012 programme which is financed by SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation).

- Member of Organizing Committee of XIX Conference of Serbian crystallographic society held in Bela Crkva in 2012.

Educational activities

• Inorganic Chemistry 2 (103H2)
• Methods of Conformational Analysis (173H2)
• Fundamentals of Chemistry - for FoPh (FF-101)

Participation in research projects

Finished projects:

• 2011: – 172065
  project type:   National Fundamental Research Projects
  project is funded by: Ministry of Science and Technological Development (Belgrade, Serbia)
• 2020: Computational Design of High Energetic Materials: Case of Chelate Complexes (CD-HEM) – 6066886   (principal investigator)
  project type:   PROMIS
  project is funded by: Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (Belgrade, Serbia)
• 2018: Cation/Pi interactions between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and transition metal ions. (451-03-01963/2017-09/11)   (principal investigator)
  project type:   Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation
  project is funded by: Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja (Belgrade, Serbia)

Author identification numbers

• ORCID:   0000-0002-1382-8785
• ResearcherID:   Q-5297-2016
• Scopus:   35328219000
• Faculty of Chemistry Repository Cherry

Representative references

[1] Goran V. Janjić,  Predrag Petrović, Dragan B. Ninković, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Agneš Kapor and Snežana D. Zarić, ’’Stacking Interactions Between Pyridine Fragments In Crystal Structures Of Terpyridyl Complexes’’  Studia UBB Chemia, (2010), LV,  3, 165 - 176.

[3] Dušan Ž. Veljković, Goran V. Janjić and Snežana D. Zarić, “Are C–H•••O interactions linear? Case of aromatic CH donors.” CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 5005–5010

[4] Dragan B. Ninković, Goran V. Janjić, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Dušan N. Sredojević and Snežana D. Zarić, “What are the preferred horizontal displacements in parallel aromatic-aromatic interactions?”, ChemPhysChem, (2011), 12(18), 3511–3514

[5] Tatjana D. Savić, Ivana A. Janković, Zoran V. Šaponjić, Mirjana I. Čomor, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Snežana D. Zarić and Jovan M. Nedeljković, “Surface modification of anatase nanoparticles with fused ring catecholate type ligands: a combined DFT and experimental study of optical properties”, Nanoscale, (2012), vol. 4, 5, 1612-1619

[6] Tatjana D. Savić, Zoran V. Šaponjić, Mirjana I. Čomor, Jovan M. Nedeljković,  Miroslav D. Dramićanin, Marko G. Nikolić, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Snežana D. Zarić and Ivana A. Janković, "Surface modification of anatase nanoparticles with fused ring salicylate-type ligands (3-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acids): a combined DFT and experimental study of optical properties", Nanoscale, (2013), vol. 5, 7601 - 7612.

[7] Dušan P. Malenov, Goran V. Janjić, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Snežana D. Zarić, "Mutual influence of parallel, CH/O, OH/π and lone pair/π interactions in water/benzene/water system", Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, (2013), vol. 1018, 59 - 65.

[9] Tatjana D. Savić,   Mirjana I. Čomor,   Jovan M. Nedeljković,   Dušan Ž. Veljković,   Snežana D. Zarić,   Vesna M. Rakić and   Ivana A. Janković, "The effect of substituents on the surface modification of anatase nanoparticles with catecholate-type ligands: a combined DFT and experimental study",  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 20796–20805.    

[10] Dušan Ž Veljković,   Vesna B Medakovic,   Jelena M Andric and   Snezana D. Zaric, C–H/O interactions of nucleic bases with water molecule. Crystallographic and quantum chemical study., CrystEngComm, 2014., 16, 10089–10096.

[11] Mariusz P. Mitoraj, Goran V. Janjić, Vesna B. Medaković, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Artur Michalak,Snežana D. Zarić and Miloš K. Milčić, Nature of the water/aromatic parallel alignment interactions., J. Comput. Chem., 2015, 36, 171–180. 

[12] Tatjana D. Savić,   Mirjana I. Čomor,  Nadica D. Abazović,   Zoran V. Šaponjić,  Milena T. Marinović-Cinović,  Dušan Ž. Veljković,   Snežana D. Zarić and   Ivana A. Janković, Anatase nanoparticles surface modified with fused ring salicylate-type ligands (1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acids): A combined DFT and experimental study, J. Alloy Compd., 2015, 630, 226–235. 

[13] Jovan Lj. Dragelj, Ivana M. Stanković,Dragana M. Božinovski, Tim Meyer, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Vesna B. Medaković, Ernst-Walter Knapp and Snežana D. Zarić,  C–H/O interactions of aromatic CH donors within proteins: a crystallographic study, Crystal Growth & Design, 2016,16, 1948−1957. 

[14] Jelena Blagojević,   Dušan Ž. Veljković, and Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking interactions between hydrogen-bridged and aromatic rings; study of crystal structures and quantum chemical calculations. CrystEngComm, 2016, 19, 40-46

[15] Janjić, G. V., Milosavljević, M. D., Veljković, D. Ž., Zarić, S. D. Prediction of strong O–H/M hydrogen bonding between water and square-planar Ir and Rh complexes, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 8657-8660.

[16] Dušan Ž. Veljković, Strong CH/O interactions between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and water: Influence of aromatic system size, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 2018, 80, 121 – 125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmgm.2017.12.014.

[17] Dušan P. Malenov,  Dušan Ž. Veljković,  Michael B. Hall,  Edward Brothers, Snežana D. Zarić, Influence of Chelate Ring Type on Chelate-Chelate and ChelateAryl Stacking: The Case of Nickel Bis(Dithiolene), Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.,  2019,21, 1198-1206 DOI:10.1039/C8CP06312E

[18] Dušan Ž. Veljković, Aleksandra B. Đunović, Snežana D. Zarić, Significant Differences in the Energy of X‐H/Pt Interactions between Cisplatin and Transplatin Molecules, ChemistrySelect, 2019, 4, 44,  12909 - 12914. DOI:10.1002/slct.201903296

[19] Ivana S. Veljković, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Gordana G. Sarić, Ivana M. Stanković, Snežana D. Zarić, What is the preferred geometry of sulfur–disulfide interactions?, CrystEngComm, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00211A.

[20] D. S. Kretić,  J. I. Radovanovića  and  D. Ž. Veljković, Can the sensitivity of energetic materials be tuned by using hydrogen bonds? Another look at the role of hydrogen bonding in the design of high energetic compounds, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 7472-7479.

[21] I. S. Veljković, D. S. Kretić and  D. Ž. Veljković, Geometrical and energetic characteristics of Se⋯Se interactions in crystal structures of organoselenium molecules, CrystEngComm, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1CE00129A

[22] J. M. Živković, D. Ž. Veljković, S. D. Zarić, Strong Hydrogen Bonds of Coordinated Ammonia Molecules, Crystal Growth & Design, 2022, 22, 1, 148–158.

[23] D. S. Kretić, I. S. Veljković, A. B. Đunović, D. Ž. Veljković, Chelate Coordination Compounds as a New Class of High-Energy Materials: The Case of Nitro-Bis(Acetylacetonato) Complexes. Molecules 2021, 26, 5438. 

[24] A. B. Đunovića, D. Ž. Veljković, Halogen bonds as a tool in the design of high energetic materials: evidence from crystal structures and quantum chemical calculations, CrystEngComm, 2021,23, 6915-6922.

[25] I. S. Veljković, J. I. Radovanović, D. Ž. Veljković, How aromatic system size affects the sensitivities of highly energetic molecules? RSC Adv., 2021,11, 31933-31940.

[26] D. S. Kretić, V. B. Medaković, D. Ž. Veljković, How Do Small Differences in Geometries Affect Electrostatic Potentials of High-Energy Molecules? Critical News from Critical Points, Crystals, 2022, 12(10), 1455.

[27]  T. Z. Verbić, K. Y. Tam, D. Ž. Veljković, A. T. M., Serajuddin, A. Avdeef, Clofazimine pKa Determination by Potentiometry and Spectrophotometry: Reverse Cosolvent Dependence as an Indicator of the Presence of Dimers in Aqueous Solutions, Molecular Pharmaceuticsthis, 2023, 20(6), 3160–3169.

[28] D. S. Kretić, I. S. Veljković, D. Ž. Veljković, Tris-(3-nitropentane-2,4-dionato-k2 O,O’) complexes as a new type of highly energetic materials: theoretical and experimental considerations, Chemistry, 2023, 5(3), 1843-1854.

[29] T. Petrović, N. Gligorijević, V. Medaković, D. Veljković, S. Aranđelović, S. Grgurić-Šipka, J. Poljarević, Oxorhenium(V) complexes with pyridinedicarboxylic ligands: Synthesis, density functional theory calculations, and drug combination study, Appl Organomet Chem 2024, 38(9), e7623.

[30] I. S. Veljković, A. B. Đunović, D. Ž. Veljković, Influence of halogen substituents on sensitivity towards detonation of polycyclic nitroaromatic high-energy molecules, J Phys Org Chem 2024, 37(10), e4649.

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