prof. dr hab. Piotr Kaszyński

Profesor, Dział Chemii Organicznej

Telefon: (+48) (42) 68 03 255

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Experience:

• 2015-present – Professor, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź, Poland
• 2014-present – Research Professor, Department of Chemistry, Middle Tennessee State University, TN
• 2012-present – Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Łódź, Poland
• 2010-2012 – Professor UŁ, Department of Chemistry, University of Łódź, Poland
• 2000-2015 – Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, TN
• 1993-2000 – Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, TN
• 1991-1993 – Post-doctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (Prof. D. Dougherty)
• 1990 – Visiting graduate student at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Prof. S. Hermanek)
• 1982/3 – Visiting undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin (Prof. J. Cook) and University of Utah (Prof. Josef Michl)

Education:

• 2007 – Habilitation, University of Łódź, Poland
• 1991 – Ph.D., University of Texas, USA (Prof. J. Michl, Thesis Advisor)
• 1985 – M.Sc. (magister inżynier), Warsaw Polytechnic, Poland

Awards:

• 2010 – Boron in the Americas Award
• 2003 – Most Valuable Scientist (Quilmes Nanoscience Workshop)
• 1995 – CAREER NSF grant
• 1978, 1979 – Laureate of XXV and XXVI Polish National Chemistry Olympiads

Expertise and interest:

• Development and application of molecular organic materials with well-defined molecular and bulk properties
• Organic synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry
• Chemistry of stable radicals
• Boron cluster chemistry
• Synthesis and characterization (thermal, dielectric and spectroscopic properties) of liquid crystals, structure-property relationships, optoelectronics, photovoltaics
• Organic magnetism
• Computational analysis and computer-aided design of organic materials
• Physical-organic chemistry

Projects:

• OPUS 7
• OPUS 9
• TEAM 3/2016 – currently open search for key positions
• NSF 2016

Recent publications:

2016

1. Constantinides, C. P.; Obijalska, E.; Kaszyński P. “Access to 1,4-dihydrobenzo[e][1,2,4]triazin-4-yl derivatives”, Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 916–919.
2. Pecyna, J.; Kaszyński, P.; Ringstrand, B.; Pociecha, D.; Pakhomov, S.; Douglass, A. G.; Young, V. G. Jr. “Synthesis and characterization of quinuclidinium derivatives of the [closo-1-CB11H12]- anion as potential polar components of liquid crystal materials”, Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 4016-4025.
3. Pecyna, J.; Żurawiński, R.; Kaszyński P.; Pociecha, D.; Zagórski, P.; Pakhomov, S. “Evaluation of sulfonium zwitterions of the [closo-1-CB11H12]- anion as polar mesogens for electro-optical applications”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2016, 2923-2931.
4. Jasiński, M.; Szczytko, J.; Pociecha, D.; Monobe, H.; Kaszyński, P. “Substituent-dependent magnetic behavior of discotic benzo[e][1,2,4]triazinyls”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 9421−9424.
5. Kaszyński, P.; Constantinides, C. P.; Young, V. G. Jr. “The Planar Blatter Radical: structural chemistry of 1,4-dihydrobenzo[e][1,2,4]triazin-4-yls”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 11149-11152.
6. Ciastek, S.; Kaszyński, P.; Pociecha, D.; Jasiński, M. “Induction of smectic polymorphism in bent-core derivatives of the 6-oxoverdazyl by partial fluorination of alkyl chains”, RSC Adv. 2016, 6, 102343-102347.

2017

1. Kaszyński, P.; Jasiński, M.; Ciastek, S.; Kapuściński, S.; Gębicki, K. “Molecular engineering of liquid crystalline derivatives of 6-oxoverdazyl”, ARKIVOC, 2017, 345-368.
2. Kaszyński, P.; Kłys, A.; Domagała, S.; Woźniak, K. ”Chirality of the trisubstituted nitrogen center: XRD, dynamic NMR, and DFT investigation of 1,2-dihydrobenzo[e]-[1,2,4]triazine derivatives”, Tetrahedron, 2017, 73, 3823-3830.
3. Kapuściński, S.; Wojciechowska, A.; Urbaniak, K.; Kaszyński, P.; Jasiński, M. “Hockey-stick liquid crystalline 6-oxoverdazyls”, Liq. Cryst., 2017, 44, 1093-1103.