Krystyna Rotkiewicz,
 Professor
  • M.Sc., 1959 - Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Warsaw
  • Ph.D., 1968 - Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw
  • D.Sc., 1990 - Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw
  • Professor, 2001
Education and training:
  • Fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • 1970-1971 - Max-Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
  • 1977 - Institute of Physical Chemistry, University Mainz, Germany
  • 1982/1983 - Institute of Organic Chemistry, Technical University, Aachen, Germany
  • 1990 - Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
  • 2000-2005 - Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraina, Kyiv.  
 
Professional affiliations:
  • Polish Chemical Society
  • European Photochemistry Association
 
Research areas:
  • Intramolecular charge transfer processes in donor-aryl-acceptor compounds. Twisted
  • Intramolecular Charge Transfer states, so-called TICT states
  • Photochemical processes initiated by electron transfer step
  • Photophysics and photochemistry in supramolecules
 
Selected papers:
  1. Rotkiewicz., Grellmann K.-H. and Grabowski Z.R., "Reinterpretation of the Anomalous Fluorescence of p-N,N-dimethylaminobenzonitrile", Chem. Phys. Lett., 19, 315-318 (1973).
  2. Rotkiewicz K., Grabowski Z.R. and Jasny J., "Picosecond Isomerisation Kinetics of Excited p-Dimethylaminobenzonitriles Studied by Oxygen Quenching of Fluorescence", Chem. Phys. Lett., 34, 55-59 (1973).
  3. Rotkiewicz K. and Rubaszewska W., "Intramolecular Charge Transfer State and Unusual Fluorescence From an upper Excited Singlet of A Nonplanar Derivative of P-cyano-N,N-dimethylaniline", J. Luminesc., 27, 221-230 (1982).
  4. Rotkiewicz K., Rechthaler K., Pucha³a A., Rasa³a D., Styrcz S. and Köhler G., "Dual Fluorescence and Intramolecular Charge Transfer in A Bulky Electron Donor-Acceptor System. N,N-dimethylaniline Substituted Bis-Pyrazolopiridine", J. Photochem. Photobiol. A, 98, 15-19 (1996).
  5. Okada T., Uesugi M., Köhler G., Rechthaler K., Rotkiewicz K., Rettig W. and Grabner G., „Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Dmabn and Its Cage Derivatives - Cyanobenzquinuclidine (Cbq) and Benzquinuclidine (Bq), Chem. Phys., 241, 327-337 (1999).
  6. Miyasaka H., Itaya A., Rotkiewicz K. and Rechthaler K., "Picosecond Laser Photolysis Studies of Dma-Dmpp In Solution", Chem. Phys. Lett., 307, 121-130 (1999).
  7. Grabner G., Rechthaler K., Mayer B., Köhler G. and Rotkiewicz K., "Solvent Influence on the Photophysics of Naphthalene. Fluorescence and Triplet State Properties in Aqueous Solutions and in Cyclodextrin Complexes", J. Phys. Chem. A, 104/7, 1365-1376 (2000).
  8. Othmen K., Boule P., Szczepanik B., Rotkiewicz K. and Grabner G., "Photochemistry of 4-Chloroaniline in Solution. Formation and Kinetic Properties of A New Carbene, 4-Imino-2,5-dienylidene", J. Phys. Chem. A, 104, 9525-9534 (2000).
  9. Z.R. Grabowski, K. Rotkiewicz and W. Rettig "Structural Changes Accompanying Intramolecular Electron Transfer; Focus on TICT States and Structures", Chem. Rev. 103/10, 3899-4031 (2003).
  10. A. Eremenko, N. Smirnova, G. Starukh, A. Chuiko, K. Rotkiewicz, A. Danel "Photophysical propertries of TICT molecule adsorbed on semiconductor titania - silica colloids", J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 177, 83 (2006).
Total number of publications: 56
Number of promoted Ph.D. students: 2
 krysiar@ichf.edu.pl