Name:

 

Vladimír Církva

 

 

 

Affiliation:

 

Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rozvojová 135, 165 02 Praha, Czech Republic

 

 

 

E-mail:

 

cirkva@icpf.cas.cz

 

 

 

Web:

 

http://www.icpf.cas.cz/
pers.aspx?PID=1160

 

 

 

Research:

 

application of microwave irradiation on the photoreactions, synthetic and exploratory organic photochemistry, chemistry of fluorine compounds and preparation of biocompatible materials with perfluoroalkyl chains

 

 

 

Short CV:

 

1992-1996 Ph.D. at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
 
1996-1998 Research Assistant at the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
 
1997 Research visit with A. Loupy at Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoires des Reactions Selectives sur Supports, Orsay, France
 
1998-2000 Postdoc with H.E. Zimmerman at University of Wisconsin, Department of Chemistry, Madison, WI, USA
 
since 2000 Research Scientist at the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
 

 

 

 

Awards:

 

1997 Chemistry Prize - Rhône-Poulenc from the French Embassy
 
2000 Alfred Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry from the Czech Chemical Society
 

 

 

 

Publications:

 

Církva V., Hájek M. Microwave photochemistry. Photoinitiated radical addition of tetrahydrofuran to perfluoro-hexylethene under microwave irradiation. J. Photochem. Photobiol. 123: 21-23 (1999).
 
Zimmermann H.E., Církva V. Excited- and ground-state versions of the tri-π-methane rearrangement; Mechanistic and exploratory organic photochemistry. J. Org. Chem. 66: 1839-1851 (2001).
 
Klán P., Hájek M., Církva V. The electrodeless discharge lamp: a prospective tool for photochemistry. Part 3. The microwave photochemistry reactor. J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 140: 185-189 (2001).
 
Klán P., Církva V. Microwave Photochemistry. In Microwaves in Organic Synthesis, Chap. 14. (Loupy, A., Ed.), pp. 463-486, John Wiley, Weinheim 2002.
 
Müler P., Klán P., Církva V. The electrodeless discharge lamp: a prospective tool for photochemistry. Part 4. Temperature- and envelope material-dependent emission characteristics. J. Photochem. Photobiol. A 128: 1-5 (2003).