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Wydział
Chemii
ul. Gagarina 7, 87-100 Toruń
tel.:
+48 (56) 611-43-02
fax: +48 (56) 654-24-77
e-mail: wydzial@chem.umk.pl
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FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY - SUMMARY:
ul. Gagarina 7; 87-100 Toruń
http://www.chem.uni.torun.pl
Dean
Dr hab. Jerzy Łukaszewicz tel. 611-43-02, 611-44-13; fax: 654-24-77
email: wydzial@chem.uni.torun.pl
Associate Deans
Dr hab. Mirosław Wełnia tel. 611-45-21
Dr hab. Andrzej Wojtczak tel. 611-45-06
Secretary
Mgr Krystyna Hinc tel. 611-45-77
Full Professors
Bogusław Buszewski (analytical chemistry), Alexandre G. Chostenko (nuclear chemistry),
Antoni Grodzicki (inorganic chemistry), Przemysław Kita (inorganic chemistry),
Michał Rozwadowski (physical chemistry), Gerhard Rychlicki (physical chemistry),
Andrzej Sadlej (theoretical chemistry), Edward Szłyk (inorganic chemistry), Mieczysław
Trypuć (chemical technology), Marek Zaidlewicz (organic chemistry), Romuald Wódzki
(physical chemistry), Jerzy Zawadzki (physical chemistry).
Associate Professors
Józef Ceynowa (physical chemistry), Wojciech Czerwiński (physical chemistry),
Marek Polasik (theoretical physics).
Assistant Professors
Maria Barysz (theoretical chemistry), Stanisław Biniak (physical chemistry),
Roman Buczkowski (chemical technology), Halina Kaczmarek (physical chemistry),
Ewa Kita (inorganic chemistry), Stanisław Koter (physical chemistry), Jerzy
Łukaszewicz (physical chemistry), Jadwiga Ostrowska-Czubenko (physical chemistry),
Mirosław Wełniak (organic chemistry), Roman Wojsz (physical chemistry), Andrzej Wojtczak
(crystallochemistry).
Professors Emeriti
Marian Czerniawski, Eleonora Danilczuk, Wiesław Dzierża, Lesław Huppenthal, Alina Kamińska,
Karol Karpiński, Ludwik Kreja, Alicja Łodzińska, Anna Narębska, Janusz Siedlewski,
Danuta U. Staszewska, Wojciech Szymański, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Zbigniew Wojtczak.
The Faculty Board has the authority to confer doctoral and post-doctoral (habilitowany)
degrees in chemistry.
Research Areas
Synthesis, physicochemistry and modification of polymers including membrane
separations and processes in enzyme membrane reactors. Electroconductive polymers.
Degradation of synthetic polymers and biopolymers. Structure, properties and kinetics
of complexes with biologically active ligands and volatile complexes of d9 and d10
electron metals, chemical vapour deposition of metallic nanolayers. Organic synthesis:
chemistry of organoboron compounds, isoprenoids, phtaleines, heterocycles and organic
isocyanates. Adsorption, physicochemistry and surface phenomena of zeolities and active
carbon materials. Environmental chemistry: pollutants in water, soil, air and plants;
utilization of wastes; chromatographic methods for environmental analyses. Preparation
and characterization of new types of solid phases for chromatography. X-ray crystal
structure determination of proteins and bioactive small molecules. Quantum-chemical
methods for description of electron correlation effects in many-electron systems.
Relativistic quantum chemistry. Atomic and molecular properties. Intermolecular
interactions and dynamics of van der Waals complexes. Study on ionisation in collision
processes by X-ray spectra analysis. Analytical chemistry of drugs and food, including
GNM food. Radiolysis chemistry of organic compounds. Proecological technologies of soda
production. Soil remediation by chemical and biological methods.
Department of Fundamentals of Chemistry
Head: Prof. dr hab. Michał Rozwadowski
Physicochemical properties of carbonaceous materials used in vapour-gas sensors and
electrodes for electroanalysis and spectroelectrochemistry (J. Łukaszewicz, S. Biniak);
synthesis and physicochemical properties of zeolites, zeolite-like materials and coked
zeolites, adsorption and catalysis on zeolites, sorption mechanism on heterogeneous surfaces,
kinetics of adsorption (M. Rozwadowski, J. Włoch, J. Kornatowski, K. Erdmann, M. Leżańska);
studies of adsorption and catalysis on modified and non-modified activated carbons,
thermodynamics of adsorption (G. Rychlicki, R. Wojsz, G. Szymański, A. Terzyk, P. A. Gauden);
studies on surface chemistry of carbon by infrared spectroscopy, carbonization, oxidation,
adsorption and catalysis (J. Zawadzki, M. Wiśniewski).
Department of Analytical Chemistry
Head: Prof. dr hab. Edward Szłyk
New analytical methods of food analysis. Determination of food additives in meat products.
Analysis of plant oil. (A. Jastrzębska, A. Szydłowska-Czerniak). Natural and synthetic drugs
analysis (M. Kurzawa). Applied techniques, spectrophotmometry (UV-VIS, IR, NIR, XRF, cITP, CZE).
Surface analysis of gold, silver and copper nanolayers obtained by Chemical Vapor Deposition
(CVD) by XRD, SEM, XPS, STEM. Synthesis and structural studies in solid and gas phase of new Au,
Ag, Cu precursors for CVD (I. Szymańska, L. Dobrzańska, R. Szczęsny). Synthesis and structural
characterization of platinum and palladium complexes with anticancer properties (I. Łakomska, L.
Pazderski). Structural and catalytic studies of the optically active transition metal complexes
(M. Barwiołek, A. Surdykowski).
Department of Chemical Technology
Head: Prof. dr hab. Mieczysław Trypuć
Technology of sodium carbonate, equilibrium in multicomponent systems, crystallization
of salts and utilization of the waste products in the Solvay-s method of soda production
(M. Trypuć, U. Kiełkowska, K. Białowicz, K. Mazurek).
Department of Environmental Chemistry and Ecoanalytics
Head: Prof. dr hab. Bogusław Buszewski
Isolation and determination of inorganic and organic pollutants in various matrices
(heavy metals, VOCs, THMs, PAHs, PCBs, pesticides, phenols, etc) using GC, HPLC, CZE,
ITP, TLC, AAS, TOC and hyphenated techniques GC/MS, LC-MS/MS, sample preparation
(extraction - LEE, SPE, SPME, SFE, PTI, HS, filtration and membrane dropping),
theoretical and practical aspects in chromatography and related techniques (separation
mechanism, developing of new stationary phases and columns): food, pharmaceutical and
biomedical analysis, utilization and treatment of industrial, agricultural and communal
wastes by biotechnological processes, water technology, soil remediation; application
of computers for data visualization, validation and simulation of contaminates in
environment samples (B. Buszewski, A. Chmarzyński, R.M. Gadzała-Kopciuch, T. Ligor,
M. Ligor, P. Kosobucki, T. Kowalkowski, M. Szumski, K. Krupczyńska).
Department of General Chemistry
Head: Prof. dr hab. Halina Kaczmarek
Polymer photodegradation and biodegradation, modification of polymers, effect of
polymer modifiers on photo- and thermoresistance of polymers, effect of polydispersity
on properties of polymers; sensibilization of polymer degradation; surface properties
of polymers, photochemical transformation and photostabilization of proteins (
collagen, crystallin), biomaterials, polymer blends (H. Kaczmarek, A. Sionkowska,
M. Świątek, J. Kowalonek, A. Szalla); properties of natural (e.g. chitosan) and
synthetic polymers in mixed solvents, compatibility of polymer blends (K. Lewandowska,
S. Trzciński); reactivity of monomers, properties and thermal behaviour of copolymers
and ionomers (K. Suchocka-Gałaś, M. Żeliazkow)
Department of Inorganic Chemistry
Head: Prof. dr hab. Przemysław Kita
Two research groups: Prof. dr hab. A. Grodzicki - synthesis, structure,
spectroscopy, thermal and magnetic properties of new transition-metal complexes with
biologically active ligands (A. Grodzicki, G. Wrzeszcz, P. Piszczek); CVD of Ti and Zr
oxides (A. Grodzicki, P. Piszczek); Prof. dr hab. P. Kita - kinetics and mechanism
of coordination compounds reactions in solution, modification of chemical reactivity
of biologically active ligands by bonding to a metal ion (P. Kita, E. Kita, J. Chatłas,
A. Katafias, J. Wiśniewska).
Department of Nuclear Chemistry
Head: Prof. dr hab. Aleksander Chostenko
Radiation chemistry of organic substances. Effect of ionisation radiation on the
resistance of carbohydrates. Formation, properties and ESR spectral parameters of radicals.
Effect of β(H-3) radiation on the resistance of mineral oils used in nuclear
technology. Radiation chemistry of alkyl chlorides and bromides. (A. Chostenko,
S. Truszkowski)
Department of Organic Chemistry
Head: Prof. dr hab. Marek Zaidlewicz
New methods of organic synthesis with the use of organoboranes; synthesis of boronic
acids, oxazaborolidines and triarylboranes for medical and other applications; selective
reduction of organic compounds; synthesis of physiologically active benzofuran derivatives
(M. Zaidlewicz, K. Aleksandrzak, A. Dzieleńdziak, M. Krzemiński, A. Prewysz-Kwinto,
A. Tafelska-Kaczmarek, A. Wolan). Transformations of terpenoids (M. Wełniak). Reactions
of organoselenium compounds (J. Ścianowski). HPLC analysis of antioxidants (J. K. Rumiński).
Department of Physical Chemistry
Head: Prof. dr hab. Józef Ceynowa
Thermodynamics, chemometrics of transport processes in membrane systems, polymer
membranes, membrane separation techniques, ionic polymers (R. Wódzki, S. Koter,
W. Kujawski, P. Szczepański, M. Świątkowski, P. Adamczak, J. Ostrowska-Czubenko,
B. Ostrowska-Gumkowska,), thermodynamics of transport processes and enantioselective
separations in membrane systems (J. Ceynowa, I. Koter), synthesis, electric,
electrochemical and catalytic properties of conducting polymers (L. Kreja, W. Czerwiński,
J. Nowaczyk, E. Olewnik).
Department of Quantum Chemistry
Head: Prof. dr hab. Andrzej J. Sadlej
Relativistic quantum chemistry. Formal aspects of relativistic theories and applications
aimed at the explanation of the role of relativistic effects in chemistry of heavy elements
(M. Barysz, A. J. Sadlej). Atomic and molecular electric properties. Development of methods
and computational methodologies for accurate predictions of atomic and molecular properties.
Non-linear electric properties of molecules and vibrational contributions to these properties.
Studies in the theory of intermolecular interactions (A. J. Sadlej). Dynamics on van der Waals
surfaces. The vibrational energy levels of high enough accuracy to provide reliable infrared
spectra of weakly interacting systems (P. Jankowski). High-level correlated methods of quantum
chemistry. Development of new approaches to the electron correlation problem in the framework
of multiconfiguration approximations (M. Barysz, A. J. Sadlej).
Section of Chemical Education
Head: Dr Aleksander Kazubski
Studies on chemical education at high-school level: teaching efficiency, didactic tests,
the structure of curricula, school chemical experiments, admission policies for university
studies in chemistry (J. Iwaszkiewicz-Nowak, K. Nowakowski, T. Buszewska).
Section of Chemical Proecological Processes
Head: Dr hab. Roman Buczkowski
Proecological problems in chemical industry; utilization of municipal and industrial
wastes; modification of unit processes in technology of drinking and industrial water;
recultivation of soils contaminated by heavy metals; qualitative and quantitative analysis
of solids and liquids by X-Ray Fluorescence method (B. Dejewska, A. Sytniewski, T. Szymański).
Section of Crystallochemistry
Head:Dr hab. Andrzej Wojtczak
X-ray crystal structure determination of biological macromolecules, molecular modeling
and bioinformatics. Structural basis for the activity of biomolecules. Crystal structure
of organic and organo-metalic small molecules of biological and catalytic importance
(A. Wojtczak, P. Neumann)
Section of Atomic Spectroscopy
Head: Dr hab. Marek Polasik
Theoretical study of the structure of satellite and hypersatellite lines in the
K, L, and M X-ray spectra of various atoms; interpretation of the K, L, and M X-ray
spectra accompanying the ionization of target atoms in collision processes;
interpretation of the K X-ray spectra from highly ionized projectiles passing
through thin carbon foils; study of the changes in the valence electronic
configuration of the 3d transition metals in various compounds and alloys
(M. Polasik, K. Słabkowska, M. Lewandowska-Robak).
Library
Librarian:Mgr Iwona Łyczywek
The collection consists of 335 periodical titles (16 671 volumes) and 19 453
books on chemistry and ancillary sciences.
The Library has an online access to CAS, Beilstein and Gmelin bases.
Research Facilities
Research facilities are located in Central Instrumental Analysis Laboratory
and in laboratories of the research groups. The following instruments are available:
multinuclear NMR spectro-meter Varian Gemini 200 MHz, solid state NMR Bruker 300 MHz,
and Varian 60 MHz 1H NMR for teaching laboratories. Gas chromatographs GC-MS (Finnigan-Mat),
GC-PTI mass spectrometer, analytical and preparative gas and liquid chromatographs UV-VIS
and IR spectrophotometers, X-ray Oxford Sapphire CCD single crystal diffractometer and
Philips X-PERT powder diffractometer, atomic emission-absorption spectrophotometers,
transmission electron microscope (Tesla), scanning electron microscope ELO 1460v,
differential scanning calorimeter (Perkin-Elmer), Calve-s microcalorimeter, DTG/TG/DCS
Thermal Analyser-TA Instruments, MOM OD 102 Derivatograph, automatic polarimeter,
analytical and preparative gas and liquid chromatographs, X-ray fluorescence spectrometer,
radiation source RChM-g-20(60Co), universal tensile testing instruments - Instron,
apparatus for total organic carbon (TOC) determination in environmental analyses, SPE,
SPME and SFE techniques for sample preparation, gas-liquid porometer (Culter),
electrodialysis laboratory plant TS 001, diffusion dialyser (Eurodial Int.),
laboratory pervaporation unit (Deutsche Carbone AG GFT).
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