Major research areas:

Analytical Chemistry
Spectrofluorimetry in micellar media.
Complexation gas chromatography.
Trace analysis of metals in biological samples.
Analytical chemistry in environmental analysis.
Methods of separation and preconcentration of metal traces.
Instrumental methods: NMR, GLC, HPLC, FTIR, UV and MS.

Technology and Catalytic Chemistry
Acid-base properties of oxide catalyst surfaces.
Catalytic reactions of importance to environment protection.
Catalysts for oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene.
Oxidation of SO₂.
Crystalline molecular sieves as catalysts.
Unsupported and supported heteropoly compounds as catalysts for ionic and oxidation reactions.
Zeolite supported nickel-molybdenum catalysts.
Deactivation of platinum catalysts containing chromium, molybdenum and tungsten supported on alumina.
Catalysis on MgFM₂ - supported metals and metal oxides.
Surface chemistry of zeolites, metal oxides and mesoporous materials.
Solid surfaces.

Chemical Education
Methods and chemistry teaching aids at secondary school levels.

Chemistry of Coal
Structure of inorganic and organic matter of coal.

Colloid Chemistry
Mechanism of slow and fast colloidal condensation.
Adsorption of polymers on solid/liquid interfaces.
Effect of polymers on the stability of lyophobic colloids.

Crystallography
Structural investigations of organic compunds, natural products and biologically active compounds.
Crystal chemistry of inclusion compounds.
Computational and methodological aspects of crystallography.
High-pressure structural studies and X-ray diffraction, alkaloids.
Molecular conformation and lattice energy of molecular crystals, transition metal complexes with organic ligands.
Hydrogen bonding.

Electrochemistry
Electrosorption.
Kinetics and mechanism of electrocatalytic oxidation-reduction of organic compounds.
Theoretical and experimental studies of the interface between metal and electrolyte solution.

Environmental Chemistry
Bimetallic catalysts for removal of pollutants.
Sorbents for solid phase extraction.
Identification and determination of organic and inorganic micropollutants in natural waters.
Monitoring of surface water quality.

Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Gas shift reaction.
Microbiological conversion of environmentally important sulphur and nitrogen compounds.
Luminescence of the lanthanide ions and their complexes.
Equilibria and mode of coordination in the binary and ternary systems.

Magnetochemistry
Magnetic and electrical properties of 3d-transiton metal oxides and their solid solutions.

Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry
Synthesis of modified oligoribonucleotides for structural studies.
Synthesis and structure of the bis-quinolizidine alkaloids.
Molecular interactions: hydrogen bonding.
Physical-organic chemistry.
Organic synthetic molecules as enzyme models.
Heterocyclic compounds.
Organic synthesis, selective and stereoselective.
Environmentally safe synthetic procedures.
Circular dichroism spectroscopy and its application to stereochemical studies.
Proton transfer reactions from C-acids to organic bases.
Insect pheromones.
Biologically active fluorochemicals.
Nucleotides and related systems containing fluorine.
Supramolecular chemistry.
Kinetics of acid-base arrangements in solutions.
New and Functional Materials

Organometallic Chemistry
Transition metal complexes in homogeneous catalysis.
Organosilicon chemistry.
Organosilicometallic chemistry.

Photochemistry
Photochemistry and photophysics of organic and organometallic compounds in solutions.
Photochemistry and photophysics of nucleic-acids components.
Synthesis of fluorescent nucleoside derivatives.
Femto- and pico-second kinetics.

Theoretical Chemistry
Theoretical spectroscopy.
High-resolution rotation-vibration spectra of nonrigid molecules.
Theory of the rotational-vibrational spectra of molecular complexes and nonrigid molecules.
Kinetics of rapid diffusion-controlled reactions.