The group consists of
members of the Laser Raman Spectroscopy Group and Chemical Physics Division
of the Department of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University.
Research
topics:
Raman and IR spectroscopy
of bioinorganic compounds
resonance Raman spectroscopy
of heme proteins and their model compounds
molecular modelling
possible new research
areas include investigation on molecular structures of biological compounds
and their model complexes, coordination compounds, zeolites, conductors
and superconductors, polymers.
2 argon ion lasers (Spectra-Physics
model 164 and Zeiss model ILA 120-1)
Helium-neon laser (Zeiss
model HNA-188-1)
Krypton ion laser (Coherent
model Innova 90)
Closed-cycle helium cryocooler
(APD model CS-202)
BIO-RAD FT-Raman system
(FT 6000 with step scan FT-IR).
Awards:
1985 and 1988 Awards of
the Minister of Education,
1986 and 1987 Awards of
the Arthur Schmitt Foundation (Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA),
1988 Award of the Society
of Applied Spectroscopy - Milwaukee Section.
International
collaboration:
Marquette University,
Chemistry Department (Prof. K. Nakamoto, Prof. J. R. Kincaid), Milwaukee,
WI 53233, USA;
University of Houston,
Chemistry Department (Prof. R. Czernuszewicz), Houston, TX 77004, USA;
University of Oita, Department
of Education (Prof. T. Kuroi), 870-11 Japan;
Instituto de Estructura
de la Materia, CSIC, Serrano 121, 28-006 Madrid, Spain.
Contact:
Jagiellonian University,
Regional Laboratory, Ingardena 3, 30-060 Kraków, Poland;
Dr. Leonard M. Proniewicz,
tel.: (48-12) 633 63 77 ext. 2255
Email: proniewi@chemia.uj.edu.pl
Selected
publications:
K. Czarnecki, L.M. Proniewicz, H. Fuji, D. Ji, R.S. Czernuszewicz, J.R. Kincaid,
Insensitivity of Vanadyl-Oxygen Bond Strengths to Radical Type (2A1u vs 2A2u) in vanadyl Porphyrin Cation Radicals,
Inorganic Chemistry, 38, 1999, 1543-1547.
Tian-jing Deng, L.M. Proniewicz, J.R. Kincaid, Hyeyeong Yeom, I.D.G. Macdonald, S.G. Sligar,
Resonance Raman Studies of Cytochrome P450BM3 and its Complexes with Exogenous Ligands,
Biochemistry, 38, 1999, 13699-13706.
M. Najbar, F. Mizukami, A. Bialas, J. Camra, A. Weselucha-Birczynska, H. Izutsu, A. Gora,
Evolution of Ti-Sn-rutile-supported V2O5-WO3 catalyst during its use in nitric oxide reduction by ammonia,
Topics in Catalysis, 11/12, 2000, 131-138.
A. Weselucha-Birczynska, B. J. Oleksyn, S.K. Hoffmann, J. Sliwinski, B. Borzecka-Prokop, J. Goslar, W. Hilczer,
Flexibility of CuCl4-tetrahedra in bis[cinchoninium tetrachlorocuprate(II)] trihydrate single crystals. X-ray diffraction and EPR studies,
Inorganic Chemistry, 40, 2001, 4526-4533.
L.M. Proniewicz, A. Kulczycki, A. Weselucha-Birczynska, H. Majcherczyk, K. Nakamoto,
Resonance Raman Characterization of Five-coordinate Dioxygen Adducts of Porphyrinatocobalt(II) Complexes Formed in Low Temperature O2 Matrices,
New Journal of Chemistry, 23, 1999, 71-76.
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