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Winner of the IUPAC
Prize
for Young Chemists - 2007
Current address (at the time of application)
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1
D- 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
Academic degrees
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Ph.D , Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Warsaw, 2006
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MSc, engineer, Warsaw University of Technology, Department of
Chemistry, 2003
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Abitur, VI Lyceum of Tadeusz Reytan
(language profile), 1998
Ph.D. Thesis
Title Search for new Hoveyda-Grubbs catalysts and their
application in metathesis of alkenes
Adviser Prof. Karol Grela
Thesis Committee Prof. Jacek Morzycki (University of Bialystok);
Prof. Zbigniew Florjanczyk (Warsaw University of Technology)
Essay
Recent years have seen a burgeoning of interest in olefin metathesis.
Using this tool, chemists can now efficiently synthesize an impressive
range of molecules that only a decade ago required significantly longer
and tedious routes. Especially, the development of efficient and selective
ruthenium catalysts 2-4 has been the key to the widespread application
of olefin metathesis in organic synthesis. Importance of metathesis
was also noticed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In the year
2005 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was given to: Yves Chauvin, Robert
H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock for their landmark work in this field.
First part of my work was devoted to the synthesis of Hoveyda-Grubbs
type of catalysts modified in the benzylidene fragment. I have proposed
a novel mode of activation of this ruthenium complexes,
not by steric but by electronic effects.....[full text; pdf
file - 478KB]
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