Daniel Kost

B.Sc, 1964, Chemistry & Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

M.Sc, 1966, Organic Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ph.D 1970, Organic Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University.

Department of Chemistry, Professor 1992.

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

Phone: +972-8-6461192, +972-52-8018800

Fax: +972-8-6472943

Office: bldg 62/309 Lab: bldg 62/303

E-mail: kostd@bgu.ac.il

Keywords: Silicon-organic chemistry, hypercoordinate silicon, siliconium cations, physical-organic chemistry.

Recent Publications:

1. B. Gostevskii, I. Kalikhman, C. A. Tessier, M. J. Panzner, W. J. Youngs, and D. Kost, "Hexacoordinate Complexes of Silacyclobutane: Spontaneous Ring Opening and Rearrangement." Organometallics, 24, 5786-5788 (2005).

2. E. Maimon, I. Zilbermann, H. Cohen, D. Kost, R. v. Eldik, and D. Meyerstein, "Mechanism of Isomerization of Ni(cyclam) in Aqueous Solutions" Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 24, 4997-5004 (2005).

3. I. Kalikhman, B. Gostevskii, M. Botoshansky, M. Kaftory, C. A. Tessier, M. J. Panzner, W. J. Youngs and D. Kost, "Octahedral and Bicapped-Tetrahedral Silicon Configurations in the Solid State and Their Dynamic Coexistence in Solution." Organometallics, 25, 1252-1258 (2006).

4. I. Kalikhman, B. Gostevskii, V. Pestunovich, N. Kocher, D. Stalke and D. Kost "Penta- and Hexacoordinate Silicon Mixed Dichelates with the SiC₂O₂N(Cl) Ligand Environment" ARKIVOC, 2006 (v) 63 – 77.

5. A. Sivaramakrishna, I. Kalikhman, E. Kertsnus, A. A. Korlyukov, D. Kost "Donor-Stabilized Silyl Cations. 10. Pentacoordinate Siliconium-Ion Salts with a Triphenylphosphinimino-N Ligand Group: Two-Bond P-N-Si Coupling as a Measure for Coordination Strength" Organometallics 25, 3687 (2006).

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