Viktor Aleksandrovich Kogan was born on 9 August 1936. In 1959 he graduated from the Chemical Faculty of Rostov State University. Since 1962 he worked at the RSU; since 1978 he was a Professor, in 1983—2014 he was the Head of the Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry of the RSU (now Southern Federal University).[1]
His main scientific works are devoted to the chemistry of coordination complexoftransition metals with polyfunctional organic ligands, magnetochemistry of bi-and polynuclear exchange clusters — complexes of transition metals with hydrazones and Schiff bases.[1]
Viktor Kogan was the author of 4 monographs and more than 600 papers and 40 invention certificates. He was a member of the editorial board of Russian Journal of Coordination Chemistry.[2]
Коган В. А., Зеленцов В. В., Ларин Г. М., Луков В. В. Комплексы переходных металлов с гидразонами. Физико-химические свойства и строение. — М.: Наука, 1990. — 112 с.
Коган В. А., Луков В. В. Физическая химия: Курс лекций. — Ростов н/Д: Изд-во Рост. ун-та, 2006. — 256 с.
