chemistry journal of moldova

D. Batîr/Chem.J.Mold. 2008, 3 (1), 129-132Due to his firm and precise gesture, intonation and multiple modulations of the voice - authoritative and bearing lotof information - he knew how to make you to see and to understand vn the most insensible molecular architectonics withtheir spatial settings, those subtle bonds between atoms which create phantasmagorical designs, determining admirationand great interest of some happy students attracted b the vocation and passion for chemistry who, fortunately, werepresent in the hall led b wise persons in this r.His introductive hour opening each academic r of the master course was unrolling in the atmosphere of beautifulsolemnity, was true holiday. I think it m from the tradition of the Iassy school with its great professors. Severalminutes before the beginning of the lesson the first line of the spacious hall was engaged b lecturers, assistants,doctors, sometimes university professors from other institutions. The professor seemed to bn inexhaustible fountainof infomation. It was easy for him to transmit data and information, unusual details, etc., being himself prodigiouscreator of science, destined with double vocation: those to disseminate the science and those for increase the wealth.I m thinking now, after mn years, after mr than half centur, how deeply the great chemist understood thespirit and objectives of chemistry and how viable his concepts related to this r rmain until now. His lessons remainalive, because they had the ncept and features appropriate only for genuine creator of science.Researcher and inventorNo doubt, in the portrait of the Patriarch we distinguish multitude of colours, which reflect contradictory andmysterious character, n incomparable professor, a good organizer and creator of research and education institutions,etc. But most lively the colours glisten which surround the mn of scin, who brought to life thousands of newchemical mpounds, watching them during half century, nicknaming them with long but exact names, as if using magic wand to reveal their mystery. is n who discerned new crystalline structures, elucidated new mechanisms,discovered new phenmn, tested new antiviral and anticarcinogenic properties, perimented with new plant andanimal growth simulators, elaborated new methods of intensification of fabric dyes, etc., exerting himself permanentlyto follow and apply the triad Education - Research - Production. coincidence, both occasionl and amazing, is permanently turning in m mind - Antonie Ablov was brn in 1905,just in the when Lev Chugaev discovered the famous reaction of the nickel with dimethylglyoxim, the phenomenalcoincidence in the science history, which like miracle marked the newborn, determining his preoccupation for hislife: devotion with his body and soul to study of dioxymines of transition metals, which occurred to b splendid modelsof different biological systems. Thus, Antonie Ablov and his assistants have fully demonstrated trans-configuration ofChugaev dioxymines; as result of numerous syntheses of new tahedral compounds they collected, like glass beadsn thread, ordinated ligands according to their capacity to exert influence in transposition; they revealed newtype of isomers, so called «of half-opened book»; elucidated the physiological proprieties and catalytic activity of thisimportant class of substances; synthesized series of dioximines, absolutely unknown before, which totally differ fromthose of Chugaev's, presenting new type of binuclear structures with cis-configuration, and which entered into thepatrimony of the world science under the nm of Ablov’s dioximines.Intuiting the calls of time, approaching the problems of the most acute up-to-dateness, Antonie Ablov orientated hisresearch, especially n some polynuclear compounds with atoms r bridge groups closely associated with n aggregateof identical atoms nmed cluster. Abundant stereochemistry and fantastic conformance of these compounds generatespecific spectroscopic and thermodynamic properties important for understanding of life rocesses which conditionthe considbl rl of these compounds in superconductivity and semi-conductivity, of magnetic mm of highdensity, as well as for resolving the fundamental rblm of managing the reactivity and synthesizing new compoundswith desired properties.Ablovianian schoolAntonie blv was scientist and person who, due to his prestige, the deep knowledge he possessed, was blto create, to manage and to educate the prestigious Scientific School in the r of Coordination Chemistry. Thefact is rmrbl that our grandmaster takes his origin from the environs of the creator of coordination chemisry,legendary professor of Polytechnical University at Zurich Alfred Werner (1866-1919), laureate of Nobel Prize (1913).In these laboratories his scientific supervisor, Professor at the «Al. I. Cuza» University at Iassy, Nicolae Costachescu(1876-1939) was educated. Antonie blv, in his turn, has elaborated under the supervision of Nicolae Costachescuand defended n the date of February 20, 1932, the doctorate thesis in Chemistry n the theme «Effect of substituentsin bases and in anions n coordination number of metal», and on Jul 25, 1944, he defended the hability doctor thesisin Chemistry «Contribution to the nature of bonds and stereochemistry of ordination compounds» in front of theScientific Council of Kazan University. As consequence, it n b summarized, than we, who r considered to bthe followers of Antonie blv, r representing the fourth generation of chemists-researchers, while our disciples who131