Olena Krushynska

Olena Krushynska


Ph. D.

researcher
   Analytical Chemistry Department
   Faculty of Chemistry
   Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University

(and a web-master of this site)

address: 64, Volodymyrska street, 01033 Kyiv, Ukraine

e-mail: lvivrem@ukr.net
website: http://www.lvivrem.org.ua




a solid-phase reagent for the 
test-evaluation of total antioxidant activity
test-evaluation of
total antioxidant activity

Research interests:

- solid-phase redox-reagents;

- non-covalent immobilization of metal chelates on silica matrices;

- determination of the organic reductants, in particular, bioantioxidants, and total antioxidant power of herbal products;

- pharmaceutical and food analysis


Education and degrees:

Ph. D., analytical chemistry, 2005

M.Sc. (honoured): analytical chemistry, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, 2000

Bachelor (honoured): analytical chemistry, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, 1999


Professional Appointments:

2005 till now - young researcher, PhD, analytical chemistry department

2005 - young researcher, assistant professor, analytical chemistry department

2003-2005 - young researcher, analytical chemistry department

2000-2003 - post-graduate student, analytical chemistry department

1995-2000 - student, the faculty of chemistry of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, "analytical chemistry" speciality


Dissertation thesis for a Candidate’s degree in chemical science

"Copper and iron chelates adsorbed on silica as solid-phase redox reagents for the determination of the organic reductants"

Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, 2005

Advisor: Prof. Olga Zaporozhets

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Publications:

26 scientific papers including 1 review, 7 original articles, 1 patent of Ukraine and 17 abstracts of the reports at the conferences and symposia

   Articles:

1. Zaporozhets O.A., Krushinskaya E.A., Lipkovskaya N.A., Sukhan V.V. Solid-phase reagent for analgin and ascorbic acid on the basis of a copper(II) complex with tetrabenzotetraazacyclohexadecine immobilized by adsorption on silica gel // Journal of Analytical Chemistry. - 2001. - V.56, ¹6. - P.524-529 (full-text, pdf, 46 Kb).

2. Zaporozhets O.A., Krushinskaya E.A. Determination of ascorbic acid by molecular spectroscopic techniques (Review) // Journal of Analytical Chemistry. - 2002. - V.57, ¹4. - P.286-297 (full-text, pdf, 68 Kb).

3. Zaporozhets O.A., Krushinsksya E.A., Barvinchenko V.N., Lipkovskaya N.A., Pogorelyi V.K. Spectrophotometric Determination of Hydroxycynnamic Acid and Related Compounds in Echinacea Preparations // Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal. - 2003. – V.37, ¹12. - P.632-636 (full-text, pdf, 95 Kb).

4. Zaporozhets O.A., Krushynska O.A., Lipkovska N.A., Barvinchenko V.N. A new test method for the evaluation of total antioxidant activity of herbal products // J. Agric. Food Chem. – 2004. – V.52. – P.21–25 (full-text, pdf, 79 Kb).

5. Zaporozhets O.A., Krushynska O.A., Khozyaeva O.O. A solid-phase redox reagent on the base of Fe(III)-phenanthroline complex immobilized on silica gel // Voprosy khimii i khimicheskoy tekhnologii (Questions of chemistry and chemical technology). – 2004. – ¹4. – P.23-27.

6. Zaporozhets O.A., Krushynska O.A. Hyphenated spectroscopic and test determination of quality parameters of the products with antioxidant activity // Magisterium "Natural sciences". Issue 16. - Êyiv: "Kyiv Mohyla Academy" publishing house, 2005. – P.63–66.

7. Krushynska O.A., Zaporozhets O.A. Test evaluation of red wine antioxidant power // Visnyk Kyivskogo natsionalnogo universytetu imeni Tarasa Shevchenko. "Khimija". – 2005. – V.41. – P.21–23.

8. Zaporozhets O.A., Krushynska O.A., Lipkovska N.O., Barvinchenko V.M. Application of the solid-phase redox reagent for the test evaluation of total antioxidant activity of herbal objects // Farmakom. - 2006. - ¹1/2. - P.51-58.

   Patent of Ukraine:

A way of spectrophotometric determination of hydroxycinnamic acid and its derivatives in medical plants and their phytoceuticals: Pat. ¹54887 of Ukraine. 7 G01N21/63 / Zaporozhets O.A., Krushynska O.A., Barvinchenko V.M., Lipkovska N.O. ¹2002043681; Declared 30.04.2002; Published 17.03.2003, Bull. ¹3. – 10 p.

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Participation in conferences:

   Oral (6):

All-Ukrainian scientific conference of young researchers hygienists, toxicologists, analysts "Modern problems of hygiene, toxicology and analytical chemistry" (Kyiv, April 2003);

VII Meeting of the All-Ukrainian medicine society (Ternopil, May 2003);

4th All-Ukrainian student and post-graduate student conference "Modern problems of chemistry", (Kyiv, May 2003);

8th Analytical Russian-German-Ukrainian Symposium ARGUS-2003 (Hamburg, August 2003);

Young scientists conference "Days of science in National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy" (Kyiv, January 2004)

International conference "Analytical chemistry and chemical analysis" AC&CA-05 (Kyiv, September 2005)

   Poster:

International Conf. "Functionalized materials: synthesis, properties and application" (Kyiv, September 2002)

3d West Ukrainian Symposium on Adsorption and chromatography (Lviv, May 2003)

International scientific and practical conf. "Spectroscopy in special applications" SSA-2003 (Kyiv, June 2003)

3d joint scientific conference in chemistry Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse (Kyiv, 2005)

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   abstracts of conference reports (included in the full list of publications)

Awards and honours:

II award of the scientific student conference (Kyiv, may 1999)

²² award of the 3d All-Ukrainian student and post-graduate student conference "Modern problems of chemistry", (Kyiv, may 2002)

² award of the 4th All-Ukrainian student and post-graduate student conference "Modern problems of chemistry", (Kyiv, may 2003)

Granted participation in the Analytical Russian-German-Ukrainian Symposium ARGUS-2003 (Hamburg, august 2003).


Teaching:

Labs and seminars in analytical chemistry for the I year students of the faculty of biology (2002)

Labs and seminars, "The methods of molecular spectroscopy", for the 4th year students of the faculty of chemistry (2005)


Social records:

Born October 19, 1978 in Kyiv, Ukraine
Language abilities: Ukrainian, Russian, English, French


Hobbies:

Travels, architecture and sight-seeings of Ukraine, hiking, speleotourism, photography, site-building
   more detailes at the personal web-site