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RESEARCH INTERESTS

molecular magnetism, bioinorganic, EPR, Mossbauer

ABOUT/BIOGRAPHY

Yiannis Sanakis was born in Artemonas, Siphnos, Cyclades in 1967. He graduated from the Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens in 1990. For his doctoral thesis, carried out at the Institute of Materials Science of NCSR - Demokritos (IMS - D), he studied paramagnetic centers of Photosystem II from higher plants by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) and Mössbauer spectroscopic techniques. He obtained his doctorate from the Dept of Physics University of Ioannina in 1995. He worked as post-doctoral fellow at IMS- D (1996 - 1997) and at the Dept. of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, U.S.A. (10/1997- 12/1999). From 2000 until 2005, he was a visiting professor at the Department of Biological Applications and Technologies, Univ. of Ioannina and research associate at IMS - D. In 2005 he joined IMS- D as a researcher and since 2014 he is Director of Research at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INN) of NCSR Demokritos. Since 2013, he is in charge of the Helium Liquefaction Unit of INN.

His research interests include Molecular Magnetism, Low Dimensional Magnetism and Magnetism at the Nanoscale, Bioinorganic and Biomedical systems, Spin based Quantum Computing, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Mössbauer Spectroscopy, Cryogenics.

He has 173 publications in peer-reviewed international journals with more than 6000 citations (without self citations) (h-index 45, May 2026; Scopus).

Representative publications:

  • “Exploratory Synthetic Studies of the Praseodymium/Di-2-Pyridyl Ketoxime System Leads to Unusual Reactivity and Interesting New Molecules” C. Stamou, C. Polyzou, C. C. Stoumpos, C. P. Raptopoulou, D. Papaioannou, Y. Sanakis, V. Psycharis, S. P. Perlepes Inorg. Chem. 2026, 65, 6385−6401
  • “Field-Induced Slow Magnetization Relaxation of a Tetrahedral S=2 FeIIS4-Containing Complex” M. Pissas, E. Ferentinos, P. Kyritsis, and Y. Sanakis, ChemPlusChem. 2024, 89, e202400109.
  • “Heterometallic clusters based on an uncommon asymmetric “V-shaped” [Fe3+(μ-OR)Ln3+(μ-OR)2Fe3+]6+ (Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho) structural core and the investigation of the slow relaxation of the magnetization behaviour of the [Fe2Dy] analogue” M. Savva, D. I. Alexandropoulos, M. Pissas, S. P. Perlepes, C. Papatriantafyllopoulou, Y. Sanakis, A. J. Tasiopoulos Dalton Trans. 2023, 52, 6997. (cover)
  • "Arrested substrate binding resolves catalytic intermediates in higher-plant water oxidation" G. Zahariou, N. Ioannidis, Y. Sanakis, D. A. Pantazis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 3156-3162.
  • "Magnetic Properties and Electronic Structure of the S = 2 Complex [MnIII{(OPPh2)2N}3] Showing Field-Induced Slow Magnetization Relaxation" Y. Sanakis, J. Krzystek, D. Maganas, A. Grigoropoulos, E. Ferentinos, M. G. Kostakis, V. Petroulea, M. Pissas, K. Thirunavukkuarasu, W. Wernsdorfer, F. Neese, P. Kyritsis. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 13281-13294
  • "A microporous Co(II) - based 3-D metal organic framework built from magnetic infinite rod-shaped secondary building units" A. Kourtellaris, E. E.Moushi, I. Spanopoulos, P. N. Trikalitis, M. Pissas, G. S. Papaefstathiou, Y. Sanakis, A. J. Tasiopoulos, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 4056-4062 (cover)
  • "Interactions between H-bonded [CuII3(μ3-OH)] triangles; A combined magnetic susceptibility and EPR study" L. Mathivathanan, A. K. Boudalis, P. Turek, M. Pissas, Y. Sanakis, R. G. Raptis Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018, 20, 17234-17344
  • "Site preferences in hetero-metallic [Fe9-xNix] clusters: a combined crystallographic, spectroscopic and theoretical analysis" A. N. Georgopoulou,  K. Al-Ameed,  A. Boudalis,  D. F. Anagnostopoulos, V. Psycharis,  J. E McGrady,  Y. Sanakis  and  C. P. Raptopoulou, Dalton Trans, 2017, 46, 12835–12844"A Redox-Induced Spin-State Cascade in a Mixed-Valent Fe3(m3-O) Triangle" E. V. Govor, K. A. Ameed, I. Chakraborty, C. S. Coste, O. Govor, Y. Sanakis, J. E. McGrady, and R. G. Raptis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 582-586

PUBLICATIONS

Pantelis, Konstantinos N., Skiadas, Sotiris G., Lada, Zoi G. and Raptopoulou, Catherine P., Psycharis, Vassilis, Sanakis, Yiannis, Turnbull, Mark M. and Perlepes, Spyros P., Tetradentate NOO′O" Schiff-Base Ligands as a Platform for the Synthesis of Heterometallic CdII-FeIII and CdII-CrIII Coordination Clusters MAGNETOCHEMISTRY, Volume 10, 2024 [doi]

Tzani, Sofia, Pissas, Michael, Psycharis, Vassilis, Pantazis, Dimitrios A., Sanakis, Yiannis and Raptopoulou, Catherine P., Synthesis and structural, magnetic and spectroscopic characterization of iron(III) complexes with in situ formed ligands from methyl-2-pyridyl ketone transformations DALTON TRANSACTIONS, Volume 52, Pages: 1582-1594, 2023 [doi]

Dermitzaki, Despina, Panagiotopoulou, Angeliki, Pissas, Michael, Sanakis, Yiannis, Psycharis, Vassilis and Raptopoulou, Catherine P., Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Trinuclear Ni(2)Ln (Ln(III) = Dy, Ho) and Ni2Y Complexes with Schiff Base Ligands CRYSTALS, Volume 12, 2022 [doi]

Stoumpos, C.C., Danelli, P., Zahariou, G., Pissas, M., Psycharis, V., Raptopoulou, C.P., Sanakis, Y. and Perlepes, S.P., Di-2-pyridyl ketone-based ligands as evergreen “trees” in the “forest” of manganese chemistry: Mononuclear Mn(III) complexes from the use of MnF3 Polyhedron, Volume 207, Article Number: 115350, 2021 [doi]

Nano, K., Zahariou, G., Ioannou, P.-C., Alam, M.M., Pantazis, D.A., Raptopoulou, C.P., Psycharis, V., Sanakis, Y. and Kyritsis, P., Electronic properties of the S = 5/2 Mn(II) complexes [MnPhC(O)NP(O)PPh2(N,N)(NO3)], (N,N) = phenanthroline, neocuproine, 2,2′-bipyridine Polyhedron, Volume 207, Article Number: 115374, 2021 [doi]

Georgopoulou, A., Pissas, M., Psycharis, V., Sanakis, Y. and Raptopoulou, C.P., A single-chain magnet based on bis(end-on azido/alkoxo)-bridged linear [MnIII2MnII] repeating units Polyhedron, Volume 206, Article Number: 115334, 2021 [doi]

Zahariou, G., Ioannidis, N., Sanakis, Y. and Pantazis, D.A., Arrested Substrate Binding Resolves Catalytic Intermediates in Higher-Plant Water Oxidation Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, Volume 60, Pages: 3156-3162, 2021 [doi]

Dermitzaki, D., Pissas, M., Psycharis, V., Sanakis, Y. and Raptopoulou, C.P., Synthesis, crystal structures, magnetic and magnetocaloric studies of heterometallic enneanuclear Cu7Gd2 complexes Polyhedron, Volume 195, Article Number: 114960, 2021 [doi]

Mathivathanan, L., Sanakis, Y., Raptis, R.G., Turek, P. and Boudalis, A.K., Observation and deconvolution of a unique EPR signal from two cocrystallized spin triangles Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Volume 23, Pages: 14415-14421, 2021 [doi]

Chrysina, M., Zahariou, G., Ioannidis, N., Sanakis, Y. and Mitrikas, G., Electronic structure of tyrosyl D radical of photosystem II, as revealed by 2D-hyperfine sublevel correlation spectroscopy Magnetochemistry, Volume 7, Article Number: 131, 2021 [doi]

Kalra, A., Bagchi, V., Paraskevopoulou, P., Das, P., Ai, L., Sanakis, Y., Raptopoulos, G., Mohapatra, S., Choudhury, A., Sun, Z., Cundari, T.R. and Stavropoulos, P., Is the Electrophilicity of the Metal Nitrene the Sole Predictor of Metal-Mediated Nitrene Transfer to Olefins? Secondary Contributing Factors as Revealed by a Library of High-Spin Co(II) Reagents Organometallics, Volume 40, Pages: 1974-1996, 2021 [doi]

Dimiza, F., Hatzidimitriou, A.G., Sanakis, Y., Papadopoulos, A.N. and Psomas, G., Trinuclear and tetranuclear iron(III) complexes with fenamates: Structure and biological profile Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Volume 218, Article Number: 111410, 2021 [doi]

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