Contemporary socio-economic reality calls for the review of some aspects of the educational process and the development of effective mechanisms for personality development in accordance with the needs of contemporary society. Training through research presents a way of motivating pupils/students to research substances and phenomena after a well-established algorithm, which contributes to the formation of research competence, as well as conscious and attractive training. It is important for the study to have relevant objectives by applying the obtained results aiming at solving real problems in everyday life, agriculture, science of materials, etc. As a model it is proposed to study the synthesis process of coordinating compounds, to analyze the composition and structure and to determine the practical application domains on the basis of the manifested biological and physical properties. As a result of the exercise and development of the research competence it aims at the formation of innovative and entrepreneurial competence, which would allow the development of new original solutions and their practical implementation in order to increase the efficiency of some economic processes on the basis of new materials and technologies.