Jacek Waluk,
 Professor
  • M.Sc., 1974 - Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw

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  • Ph.D., 1979 - Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw

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  • D.Sc., 1987 - Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw

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  • 1998, Professor - Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw
 
 Education and training:
  • 1980 - University of Utah, USA
  • 1984, 1985, 1986 - Royal Danish School of Educational Studies, Denmark
  • 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993 - Technical University of Berlin, Germany
  • 1993, 1994, 1995 - University of Roskilde, Denmark
  • 1999, 2001 - Colorado School of Mines/National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
  • 2000 - University of Colorado, USA
Professional affiliations:
  • European Photochemistry Association (Chairman, 2000-2004)
  • Polish Chemical Society
  • American Chemical Society
  • Society for Advancement of Science and Arts (TPKN)
  • International Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • Advisory/ownership boards: Chemical Physics, J. Luminescence, The Open Chemical Physics Journal
 
 Research areas:
  • Physical Organic Chemistry (proton and electron transfer, structure and reactivity of azaaromatics and porphyrin isomers, hydrogen bonding, conformational equilibria)
  • Spectroscopy and Photophysics (electronic absorption/emission, IR/Raman, matrix isolation, linear and magnetic circular dichroism, time-resolved techniques)
  • Theoretical Chemistry
 
 Selected papers:
  1. Sepio³ J., Stepanenko Y., Vdovin A., Mordziński A., Vogel E. and Waluk J., " Proton tunneling in porphycene seeded in a supersonic jet.", Chem. Phys. Lett. 296, 549-556 (1998).
  2. Kyrychenko A., Herbich J., Izydorzak M., Wu F., Thummel R.P. and Waluk J., " Role of ground state structure in photoinduced tautomerization in bifunctional proton donor-acceptor molecules: 1H-pyrrolo[3,2-h]quinoline and related compounds ", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 11179-11188 (1999).
  3. Waluk J., "Conformational aspects of intra- and intermolecular excited state proton transfer"; "Conformational Analysis of Molecules in Excited States" (J. Waluk, Ed.); Wiley-VCH, 2000, 57-111.
  4. Kyrychenko A., Herbich J., Wu F., Thummel R.P. and Waluk J., "Solvent-induced syn-anti rotamerization of 2-(2'-pyridyl)indole and the structure of its alcohol complexes", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 2818-2827 (2000).
  5. Dobkowski J., Wójcik J., Ko¼miński W., Ko³os R., Waluk J., Michl J.: "Syn-anti photoisomerization in 2-(N-methyl-N-isopropylamino)-5-cyanopyridine"; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124 (2002) 2406-2407.
  6. Waluk J.: "Hydrogen-bonding-induced phenomena in bifunctional heteroazaaromatics"; Acc. Chem. Res. 36 (2003) 832-838.
  7. Piwoński, H., Stupperich C., Hartschuh A., Sepio³ J., Meixner A., Waluk J.: "Imaging of tautomerism in a single molecule"; J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2005).
  8. Waluk J.: "Ground- and excited-state tautomerism in porphycenes"; Acc. Chem. Res. 39 (2006) 945-952.
  9. Waluk J.: "Tautomerization in porphycenes"; Hydrogen-Transfer Reactions, Hynes, J. T.; Klinman, J. P.; Limbach, H. H.; Schowen, R. L., Eds. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim: 2007; Vol. 1, pp 245-271.
  10. Kijak, M., Nosenko, E., Singh, A., Thummel, R. P., Waluk, J.:"Mode-selective excited state proton transfer in 2-(2'-pyridyl)pyrrole isolated in a supersonic jet"; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129 (2007) 2738-2739.
Total number of publications: 160
 waluk@ichf.edu.pl