Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Education

University Diploma - Synthesis and Functionalisations of Crossliked Styrene-Acrylate supports, University of Ljubljana, 1994

Ph. D. - Effect of Acrylates Structure on the Reactivity of Polymer Supports, University ofLjubljana, 1999

Post-doctoral Education - EU Marie Curie project Monolithic Porous Polymers: Versatile Materials for High Throughput Solid-phase Synthesis, University of Durham, United Kingdom, 2001-2002

 

Teaching Assignments

Graduate programs: Combinatorial Chemistry and Use of Polymer Supports in Chemistry

Undergraduate programs: Organic Chemistry (Faculty of Education, Maribor), Chemistry (Faculty of Medicine)

 

Research Interests

Preparation of new spherical and monolithical polymers for applications in organic synthesis and analytical chemistry.

Optimization of morfological structure of porous biodegradable polymers for applications in tissue engineering.

Study of characteristics of new polymer supports by scanning electron microscopy, FT infrared sprectroscopy, mercury intrusion and nitrogen porosimetry.

Solid phase synthesis - use of polymeric supports for the synthesis of compounds with analogical structure; polymer supported scavengers.

Development of tailor made polymers for toxic component removal and large molecule purification.

 

Participation in Current Research Projects

"Hydrodynamic and Chromatographic Characteristics of PolyHIPE Monoliths" in cooperation with BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Dr. A. Podgornik)

Bilateral project with the University of Durham "Partnership in Science", 2003, 2004, 2005 (Dr. N. Cameron)

Bilateral project with the Graz University of Technology, 2007-2008 (Dr. C. Slugovc)

Bilateral project with the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Prague, 2006-2007 (Dr. K. Jerabek)

 

Scientific cooperations

BIA Separations d.o.o.

University of Durham, Department of Chemistry, United Kingdom

Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana

Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Organic Materials, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Department of Separation Processes, Praga.

 

Selected publications

JEŘÁBEK, Karel, PULKO, Irena, SOUKUPOVA, Krasimira, ŠTEFANEC, Dejan, KRAJNC, Peter. Porogenic solvents influence on morphology of 4-vinylbenzyl chloride based polyHIPEs. Macromolecules, 2008, vol. 41, iss. 10, str. 3543-3546.

PULKO, Irena, KOLAR, Mitja, KRAJNC, Peter. Atrazine removal by covalent bonding to piperazine functionalized PolyHIPEs. Sci. total environ.. [Print ed.], Nov. 2007, vol. 386, iss. 1/3, str. 114-123.

ŠTEFANEC, Dejan, KRAJNC, Peter. Aryl acrylate porous functional polymer supports from water-in-oil-in-water multiple emulsions. Polym. int., 2007, vol. 56, iss. 10, str. 1313-9.

KOVAČIČ, Sebastijan, ŠTEFANEC, Dejan, KRAJNC, Peter. Highly porous open-cellular monoliths from 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate based high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) : preparation and void size tuning. Macromolecules, 30. oct. 2007, vol. 40, no 22, str. 8056-8060.

LEBER, Nermina, FAY, Jonathan D.B., CAMERON, Neil R., KRAJNC, Peter. 2,4,6-trichlorophenyl acrylate emulsion-templated porous polymers (PolyHIPEs) : morphology and reactivity studies. J. polym. sci., Part A, Polym. chem., Jul. 2007, vol. 45, iss. 17, str. 4043-4053.

JUNKAR, Ita, KOLOINI, Tine, KRAJNC, Peter, NEMEC, Damjan, PODGORNIK, Aleš, ŠTRANCAR, Aleš. Pressure drop characteristics of poly(high internal phase emulsion) monoliths. J. chromatogr., 9 Mar. 2007, vol. 1144, iss. 1, str. 48-54.

KRAJNC, Peter, LEBER, Nermina, BROWN, Jane F., CAMERON, Neil R., Hydroxy-derivatised emulsion templated porous polymers (PolyHIPEs): Versatile supports for solid and solution phase organic synthesis. React. Funct. Polym., 2006, Vol. 66, Iss. 1, 81-96.

KRAJNC, Peter, ŠTEFANEC, Dejan. 4-Vinylbenzyl Chloride Based Porous Spherical Polymer Supports Derived From Water-in-Oil-in-Water Emulsions. React. Funct. Polym., 2005, 65, 37-45.

KRAJNC, Peter, ŠTEFANEC, Dejan, PULKO, Irena. Acrylic Acid "Reversed" PolyHIPE. Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2005, vol. 26, iss. 16, 1289-1293.

 

KRAJNC, Peter, ŠTEFANEC, Dejan, BROWN, Jane F., CAMERON, Neil R. Aryl Acrylate Based High-Internal-Phase Emulsions as Precursors for Reactive Monolithic Polymer Supports. J. Polym. Sci., Pt. A: Polym. Chem., 2005, 43, 296-303.

KRAJNC, Peter, LEBER, Nermina, ŠTEFANEC, Dejan, KONTREC, Sandra, PODGORNIK, Aleš. Preparation and Characterisation of PolyHIPE Methacrylate Monoliths and Application as Separation Media. J. Chrom. A, 2005, Volume 1065, Issue 1, 69-73.

BROWN, Jane F., KRAJNC, Peter, CAMERON, Neil R. PolyHYPE Supports in Batch and Flow-Through Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reactions. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. , Web Release Date: March 22, 2005, 8 str. 8565-8572.

PULKO, Irena, KRAJNC, Peter. Influence of crosslinker and monomer ratio on bead size distribution, swelling and polymer network flexibility of 4-nitrophenylacrylate polymer supports. Acta chim. slov., 2005, vol. 52, no. 3, str. 215-223.

KRAJNC, Peter, TOPLAK, Renata. Derivatisation of Crosslinked Poly(styrene-co-acryloyl chloride) for Functional Polymer Supports and Use as an Electrophilic Scavenger resin. React. Funct. Polym., 2002, 52, str. 11-18.

KRAJNC, Peter. The Influence of Some Polymerization Conditions on the Morphology of Poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) Monoliths. Polimery , 2002, 47, 3, 180-183.

KRAJNC, Peter, BROWN, Jane F., CAMERON, Neil R. Monolithic Scavenger Resins by Amine Functionalizations of Poly(4-vinylbenzyl chloride-co-divivylbenzene) PolyHIPE Materials. Org. Lett., 2002, vol. 4, no. 15, str. 2497-2500.

ZUPAN, Marko, KRAJNC, Peter, STAVBER, Stojan. The Role of Multifunctionalized Amine Structure and Reaction Conditions on the Transformations of Crosslinked Copoly(styrene-p-nitrophenylacrylate). J. polym. sci., Part A, Polym. Chem.1998, vol. 36, str. 1699-1706.

ZUPAN, Marko, KRAJNC, Peter, STAVBER, Stojan. Polymers as Reagents and Catalysts. 39, Introduction of Phenylamido and Phenylhydrazido Groups into a Crosslinked Styrene-acrylate Matrix. Acta Chim. Slov. 1998, let. 45, št. 4, str. 429-442.

ZUPAN, Marko, KRAJNC, Peter, STAVBER, Stojan. Site-site Interactions in a Polymer Matrix: Effect of Amine Structure on Transformations of Copoly(styrene-p-nitrophenylacrylate). Polymer., 1996, vol. 37, no. 24, str. 5477-5481.

ZUPAN, Marko, KRAJNC, Peter, STAVBER, Stojan. Site-site Interactions in a Polymer Matrix: the Effect of Polymer Backbone Structure on the Transformation of Crosslinked Resins with Substituted Hydrazines. J. Polym. Sci., Part A, Polym. Chem., 1996, vol. 34, str. 2325-2331.

ZUPAN, Marko, KRAJNC, Peter, TRNOVŠEK, Robert, STAVBER, Stojan. Polymers as Reagents and Catalysts. 35, The Role of Polymer Backbone Structure in the Reactivity of Bromine Complexes. Acta Chim. Slov., 1996, vol. 43, no. 2, str. 189-205.

 

Complete personal bibliography (Cobiss)

 

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