prof. dr hab. Marian Mikołajczyk
Profesor, Dział Chemii Organicznej
Telefon: (+48) (42) 68 03 221
Scientific degrees:
- 1959 – M.Sc. eng., Technical University of Łódź
- 1963 – Ph.D., Technical University of Łódź
- 1967 – Habilitation, Technical University of Łódź
- 1974 – Extraordinary Professor
- 1982 – Full Professor of Chemistry
Professional Experience:
- 1960-1961 – Research Assistant, Technical University of Łódź
- 1961-1963 – Senior Research Assistant, Technical University of Łódź
- 1963-1967 – Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Organic Synthesis, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz
- 1967-1972 – Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
- 1968-1969 – Research Fellow of the Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen (Germany)
- 1972-1974 – Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź
- 1974 – Professor of Organic Chemistry, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź
- 1972-2000 – Head of the Department of Organic Sulfur Compounds, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź
- 1973-1987 – Head of the Laboratory of Spectroscopic Techniques, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź
- 1984-1990 – Deputy Director of the Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź (responsible for scientific affairs)
- 1991-2007 – Director of the Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź
- 2001-2007 – Head of the Department of Heteroorganic Chemistry, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź
Visiting professorships:
- 1980 – Visiting Professor in the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Hamburg (Germany)
- 1987 – Visiting Professor in the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University Paris-Sud, Centre D’Orsay (France)
- 1988 – Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA)
- 1991 – Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva (Israel)
- 1993 – Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Chemistry, Sao Paulo, University (Brasil)
- 1994 – Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Chemistry, University P.Sabatier, Toulouse (France)
- 1995, 1997, 1999 – Visiting Professor in the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the Technical University, Braunschweig (Germany)
Professional activities:
Publications: over 440 publications (among them 360 original papers, 42 reviews, 41 chapters in books) and 3 books. He is author or co-author of 23 patents. The publications of M. Mikołajczyk were cited more than 5300 times (without self-citations) and his Hirsch Index is 40 0 (Web of Knowledge, as for December 2017) .
Together with his students he has provided many contributions to: synthetic organophosphorus chemistry, stereochemistry and physical chemistry of organophosphorus compounds, chemistry and stereochemistry of organosulfur compounds, asymmetric and stereoselective synthesis.
He has directed his skill and experience in heteroorganic chemistry towards the solution of problems on: nucleophilic substitution at the chiral phosphorus and sulfur atom, mechanism of the reaction between carbodiimides and thio- and selenoacids, synthesis of chiral trivalent phosphorus compounds; anomeric effect of phosphorus substituents in cyclic sulfur and selenium compounds.
Starting from 1985 attention was also paid to the synthesis of 1,4-dicarbonyl systems, cyclopentanoid antibiotics, prostaglandins and carbocyclic nucleosides using new organosulfur and organophosphorus reagents and building blocks.
During the last decades he contributed greatly to the development of enzymatic heteroatom chemistry.
Academy membership:
- elected in 1990 – Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina
- elected in 1991 – Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences – corresponding member
- elected in 2002 – Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences – full member
Activity in the Polish Academy of Sciences:
- 1981 – 1983 – Deputy of Scientific Secretary of the Third Division (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
- 1999 – 2006 – Member of the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 1999 – 2007 – President of the Lodz Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2016 – Member of Presidium of the Lodz Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Awards and distinctions:
- 1967 – Award of the Polish Chemical Society for the work on phosphorus thioacids
- 1968 – State award for the achievements in the field of stereochemistry of optically active organophosphorus compounds
- 1978 – Maria Sklodowska-Curie award of the Polish Academy of Sciences for creative research in organosulfur chemistry
- 1981 – Kostanecki Medal of the Polish Chemical Society and Memorial Lecturer
- 1985 – Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Academy of German Democratic Republic for the achievements in the field of metalloidorganic chemistry and cooperation with the GDR chemists
- 1985, 2006 – Award of the City of Lodz for research in organic chemistry
- 1991 – H. Dozor Fellowship of the University of Beer-Sheva (Israel)
- 1992 – Medal of the City of Caen (France)
- 1993 – Fellowship of the Japan Society of Promotion of Science
- 1997 – Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
- 2001 – Sniadecki Medal of the Polish Chemical Society and Memorial Lecturer
- 2001 – M.Curie – W.Klemm award of the German Chemical Society and Polish Chemical Society and lectures
- 2002 – Doctor Honoris Causa of the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
- 2002 – Award of the Prime Minister of Poland for outstanding achievements in organic chemistry
- 2003 – Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University, Lodz
- 2009 – International Arbuzovs Prize in the Field of Phosphorus Chemistry
- 2010 – Award „Łódzkie Eureka”
Society membership:
- 1963 – Polish Chemical Society
- 1985-1989 – Titular Member of the Organic Chemistry Division of IUPAC
- 1989-1995 – Coopted Member of the Organic Chemistry Division of IUPAC
- 1989-1997 – Member of the Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry of IUPAC
- 1995 – Member of the Committee on Chemical Weapons Destruction Technologies of IUPAC
- 1990 – International Council on Main Group Chemistry – Member
- 1995 – 1999 – Member of the Board of Directors
- 2001 – President
- 2004-2006 – Member of the Board of Directors
- 2000 – German Chemical Society (GDCh)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals:
- 1981-2003 – Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and Related Elements
- 1988 – Heteroatom Chemistry
- 1989 -1995 – Topics in Stereochemistry
- 1990-2004 – Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 1990 – Polish Journal of Chemistry
- 1991-1996 – Chemistry International
- 2005 – Chemistry Letters
- 2005 – Egyptian Journal of Chemistry
Organization of scientific symposia and conferences:
- 1974 – Scientific Secretary of the International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry (Gdansk, Poland)
- 1984 – Member of the International Scientific Committee of the IUPAC Congress of Natural Products (Poznan, Poland)
- 1985 – Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Polish-French Symposium of Phosphorus, Silicon and Sulfur Chemistry (Sulejów, Poland)
- 1986 – Member of the International Committee of the Symposia on the Organic Chemistry of Sulfur
- 1987-1997 – Member of the International Committee of the European Symposia on Organic Chemistry
- 1990 – Chairman of the International Symposium on Organic Chemistry of Sulfur Lodz, Poland)
- 1990 – Chairman of the International Conference on Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry of Phosphorus (Spala, Poland)
- 1992 – Member of the International Committee of Conferences on Phosphorus Chemistry
- 1992, 2000, 2003 – Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on theChemical Synthesis of Antibiotics and Related Compounds (Kloster Banz, Germany; Mierki, Poland; Tokyo, Japan)
- 1996 – Co-director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on „Chemical Problems Associated with Old Arsenical and Mustard Munitions” Lodz, Poland)
- 1998 – Co-director of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on „Enzymatic Heteroatom Chemistry” (Nijmegen, Holland)
- 2000 – Member of the International Committee of the IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis (Warsaw, Poland)
- 2001 – Chairman of the 6th International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry (Lodz, Poland)
- 2003 – Chairman of the International Workshop „Advances in Heteroatom Chemistry” (Lodz, Poland)
- 2007 – Chairman of the International Conference on Selenium and Tellurium Chemistry – X (Lodz, Poland)
- 2012 – Honorary Chairman of the 25th International Symposium on the Organic Chemistry of Sulfur (Częstochowa, Poland)
