Antonija Lesar, Ph.D.

Contact information

Office:

Address: Jozef Stefan Institute, Dept. of Physical and Organic Chemistry, Jamova 39, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Phone: +386 61 17 73 218

Fax: +386 61 219 385

E-mail: antonija.lesar@ijs.si

Home:

Address: Trzaska 47, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Biographical sketch

• born January 18, 1954, Hrovaca, Ribnica, Slovenia
• B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1977
• M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1987
• Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1992
• postdoctoral associate

Areas of research

• kinetic isotope effects in homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions
• application of quantum-chemical methods to the study of elementary processes of surface reactions
• interaction of small atoms and molecules with single-crystal surfaces
• molecular and electronic structure of small rings and aromatic compuonds
• theromodynamic properties of binary compounds

Scientific cooperation with:

• Catalysis Research Center, Div. of Surface Molecular Dynamics, Hokkaido Uni versity, Sapporo, Japan

• Institute of Physics, University of Zagreb, Surface Science Group, Zagreb, Croatia

• Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Theoretical Chemistry Group, Zagreb, Croatia

• Roland E"otv"os University, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary

Scientific publications:

• A. Lesar, A. Popovic and J. Marsel, Mass spectrometric investigations of NiTe₂O₅ and Ni₂Te₃O₈ at high temperatures, J. Less Comm. Metals 143, 151-157 (1988).

• M. Eckert-Maksic, A. Lesar, Z. B. Maksic, Fine tuning of the Mills-Nixon effect. Influence of substituents in some benzocyclobutenes and benzocyclobutadienes, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Transaction 2, 993-997 (1992).

• A. Lesar, M. Senegacnik, 15-N and 18-O kinetic isotope effects in the thermal decomposition of N₂O catalyzed by bromine, J. Chem. Phys. 99, 187-195 (1993).

• A. Popovic, L. Benze, J. Marsel, A. Lesar, K. Vass-Balthazar, O. Kaposi, Mass Spectrometric Investigation of the Evaporation Properties of Ba₂CaWO₆ and Ba₂SrWO₆, Rapid Comm. in Mass Spectrometry 7, 416-420 (1993).

• L. Bencze, J. Marsel, A. Popovic, A. Lesar, Mass Spectrometric Investigation of the Equilibrium Gas-phase Composition over InJ₃ at Elevated Temperatures, Org. Mass Spectrometry 28, 1570-1576 (1993).

• A. Lesar, T. Yamanaka, Y. Ohno and T. Matsushima, Preferential occurence of carbon monoxide oxidation on two reaction sites on platinum (113), Chem. Phys. Letters 234, 330-336 (1995).

• A. Lesar, M. Hodoscek and M. Senegacnik Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Decomposition of N₂O Catalyzed by Chlorine, J. Chem. Phys., 105, 917-926 (1996).

• P. Vidmar, A. Lesar, I. Kobal, J. Koller, Theoretical Interpretation of Kinetic Isotope Effects for the Reaction of CO₂ on a Mg Surface, J. Phys. Chem., 100, 5781-5787 (1996).

• T. Yamanaka, Y. Ohno, A. Lesar, T. Matsushima, Studies on Reaction Sites of Carbon Monoxide Oxidation on Platinum (113) by Angle resolved Thermal Desorption, Surf. Sci., 357-358, 759-763 (1996).

• M. Eckert-Maksic, Z. Glasovac, M. Hodoscek, A. Lesar and Z.B. Maksic, Molecular and Electronic Structure of 1,2-disilacyclo- butabenzenes. Ab initio Molecular Orbital and Density Functional Study, J. Organomet. Chem., 524/1-2, 107-114 (1996).

• A. Kokalj, A. Lesar and M. Hodoscek, Interaction of oxygen with the Pt(111) surface: a cluster model study, Chem. Phys. Lett., in press (1997).

• A. Popovic, A. Lesar, M. Gucek and L. Bencze, Mass Spectrometric Investigation of the Evaporation properties of Lead Oxide, Rapid Comm. in Mass Spectrometry, in press (1997).