Tamara V. Basova received her Ph.D. (1999) and D.Sc. (2011) in Physical Chemistry from the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia. Currently, she is a head of the Laboratory of Chemistry of Volatile Coordination and Metal–Organic Compounds at the institute. Her research interests are mainly directed towards the synthesis and characterization of various porphyrin and phthalocyanines and the investigation of the sensor and electrical properties of their oriented films.