Ludmila I. Rublova Ph.D. in chemistry, senior researcher, assistant professor DonNTU General Chemistry Chair e-mail: rublova@pisem.net

She was born in Makeevka, a town in Donetsk region of Ukraine. Soon after their family moved to Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region because of her father's new job on organizing new mines.

While in high school , she disliked chemistry. But she decided to prove the teacher that she can understand the subject - and, as a result, she became really interested in chemistry. In 1978 she graduated form Pavlograd school, moved to Donetsk, as she entered Donetsk Polytechnic Institute (now Donetsk National Technical University) .

She began doing research on the second year of study. Irina Iosifovna Novitskaya was her research advisor. The master thesis work was "Oxidation of carbon oxide (II) at thin-film palladinized catalyst". This catalyst was created for exhaust gas afterburning in submarines. Now the similar catalysts are uses in automobiles for the same purposes.

In 1983, she started to work on her PhD in the group of professor Regina Vikentyevna Vizgert. The area of research was in organic compounds of sulfur and their reactivity.
In March, 1994 she defended a PhD in chemistry thesis, entitled "Influence of substrate structure and solvent polarity effects at hydrolysis of sterically hindered aromatic sulfochlorides."
In 2001 she successfully completed doctor of sciences work in the field of organic chemistry.

The scientific work she heads relates to fundamental research and tightly connected with practical application: this compounds and their derivatives are widely uses in medicine and industry.
In chemistry of hetero-organic compounds especially in chemistry of sulfur the sterical effects was discussed indefinably and at qualitative level for a long time. However, the problem is worth discussing because of unusual reaction rates in hindered sulfonyl systems. The limited quantity of experimental data permits to make a conclusion of presence of considerable non-classical steric effect in chemistry of sulfur organic compounds but it is not allow us to build a full quantitative description and perform comparative analysis with compounds of other elements.

Actually the objective of L.I. Rublova group's work is to build a quantitative description of reactivity of sterically hinderes sulfoacids derivatives.