Biography

Dr. Jarowski was born in the City, County and State of New York in New York Hospital. He graduated (B. Sc. in Chemistry) from New York University (NYU) (2001) where he studied electron transfer processes in porphyrin-fullerene dyads under the tutelage of Prof. David I. Schuster and was recipient of the Izadore Rubiner Award for Excellence in Chemical Research.

Following his undergraduate studies, Dr. Jarowski left New York (finally) for Los Angeles to obtain his Ph. D. (2006) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) working with both Profs. K. N. Houk and M. A. Garcia-Garibay. At UCLA he received a diverse education centered on using computational methods to solve experimentally difficult or unapproachable problems in fundamental and applied chemistry. His work was funded, in part, by an American Chemical Society, Organic Division Fellowship. His work dealing with the thermochemistry of polyenes and polyynes, in collaboration with the group of Prof. Paul v. R Schleyer, resulted in two write-ups in C&EN News.

He quit Los Angeles for Zurich, Switzerland, to do a postdoctoral stay in the laboratories of Prof. Dr. François Diederich at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule. There he turned to the experimental synthetic and physical organic chemistry of novel chromophores for applications in non-linear optics and other light technologies.

Dr. Jarowski took the post of Lecturer in the Chemical Synthesis of Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Surrey within the Advanced Technology Institute in September 2010.

Research Interests

Our research group is interested in the study of supramolecular phenomena using methods from physical organic chemistry with an emphasis on photovoltaics. The strategy involves novel experimental organic synthesis and solution-phase characterization in conjunction with related, and stand-alone, computational projects. Materials processing and analysis will be done in collaborations with the many experts here at the University of Surrey and the Advanced Technology Institute as well as in the South East Physics Network.

Research Collaborations

Dr. Anna Hirsch
Stratingh Institute for Chemistry
University of Groningen
Netherlands

Publications

(1) Schuster, D. I.; Jarowski, P. D.; Kirschner, A. N.; Wilson, S. R. "Molecular Modelling of Fullerene-Porphyrin Dyads." J. Mat. Chem., 2002, 12, 2041-2047. (Citations: 43).

(2) Schuster, D. I.; Rosenthal, J.; MacMahon, S.; Jarowski P. D.; Alabi, C. A.; Guldi D. M. "Formation and Photophysics of a Stable Concave-Convex Supramolecular Complex of C-60 and a Substituted s-Triazine Derivative." Chem. Commun., 2002, 21, 2538-2539. (Citations: 18).

(3)  Wilson, S. R.; MacMahon, S.; Tat, F. T.; Jarowski, P. D.; Schuster D. I. "Synthesis and Photophysics of a Linear Non-Covalently Linked Porphyrin-Fullerene Dyad." Chem. Commun., 2003, 2, 226-227. (Citations: 57).

(4)  Schuster, D. I.; Cheng, P.; Jarowski, P. D.; Guldi, D. M.; Luo, C.; Echegoyen, L.; Pyo, S.; Holzwarth, A. R.; Braslavsky, S. E.; Williams, R. M.; Klihm, G. "Design, Synthesis, and Photophysical Studies of a Porphyrin-Fullerene Dyad with Parachute Topology; Charge Recombination in the Marcus Inverted Region." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 7257-7270. (Citations: 78).

(5) Auffrant, A,; Jaun, B.; Jarowski, P. D.; Houk, K. N.; Diederich, F. "Peralkynylated Buta-1,2,3-Trienes:  Exceptionally Low Rotational Barriers of Cumulenic C=C Bonds in the Range of Those of Peptide C–N Bonds." Chem. Eur. J., 2004, 10, 2906-2911. (Citations: 9).

(6)  Jarowski, P. D.; Wodrich, M. D.; Wannere, C. S.; Schleyer, P. v. R.; Houk, K. N. "How Large is the Conjugative Stabilization of Diynes?" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 15036-15037. Article featured in C&EN News. December 20, 2004. (Citations: 41).

(7)  Jarowski, P. D.; Diederich, F.; Houk, K. N. "Structures and Stabilities of Diacetylene-Expanded Polyhedranes by Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics." J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 1671-1678. (Citations: 19).

(8)  Horansky, R. D.; Clarke, L. I.; Price, J. C.; Khuong, T. -A. V.; Jarowski, P. D.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. "Dielectric Response of a Dipolar Molecular Rotor Crystal." Phys. Rev. B, 2005, 72, 014302-1–014302-5. (Citations: 21).

(9)  Horansky, R. D.; Clarke, L. I.; Winston, E. B. Price, J. C.; Karlen, S. D.; Jarowski, P. D.; Santillan, R.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. "Dipolar Rotor-Rotor Interactions in a difluorobenzene Molecular Rotor Crystal." Phys. Rev. B, 2006, 74, 054306. (Citations: 16).

(10) Jarowski, P. D.; Diederich, F.; Houk, K. N. "Butatrienes as Extended Alkenes: Barriers to Internal Rotation and Substitution Effects on the Stabilities of the Planar Ground States and Perpendicular Transition States." J. Phys. Chem. A, 2006, 110, 7237-7246. (Citations: 5).

(11) Jarowski, P. D.; Houk, K. N.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. "The Importance of Correlated Motions on the Low Barrier Rotational Potentials of Crystalline Molecular Gyroscopes." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 3110-3117. (Citations: 17).

(12) Khuong, T.–A. V.; Dang, H.; Jarowski, P. D.; Maverick, E.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. "Rotational Dynamics of a Molecular Gyroscope by Variable Temperature ¹³C NMR, ²H NMR, and X-Ray Diffraction Thermal Parameters." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007,129, 839-845. (Citations: 18).

(13) Wodrich, M. D.; Wannere, C. S.; Jarowski, P. D.; Mo, Y.; Schleyer, P. v. R.; Houk, K. N. "The Concept of Protobranching and Its Many Paradigm Shifting Implications for Energy Evaluations." Chem. Eur. J., 2007, 13, 7731-7744. (Citations: 39). Article featured in C&EN News. February 25, 2008.

(14) Reutenauer, P.; Kivala, M.; Jarowski, P. D.; Boudon, C.; Gisselbrecht, J. –P.; Gross, M.; Diederich, F. "New Organic Super-Acceptors by Cycloaddition of TCNE and TCNQ to Donor-Substituted Cyanoalkynes." Chem. Commun., 2007, 46, 4898-4900. (Citations: 16).  

(15) Jarowski, P. D.; Wu, Y.-L.; Schweizer, W. B.; Diederich, F. "1,2,3-Triazoles as Conjugative p-Linkers in Push-Pull Chromophores: Importance of Substituent Positioning on Intramolecular Charge-Transfer." Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 3347-3350. (Citations: 12).

(16) Gottschalk, T.; Jarowski, P. D.; Diederich, F. "Reversable Controllable Guest Binding in Precisely Defind Cavities: Selectivity, Induced Fit, and Switching in Novel Resorcin[4]arene-Based Container Molecules." Tetrahedron, 2008, 64, 8307-8317. (Citations: 5).

(17) Kivala, M.; Boudon, C.; Gisselbrecht, J. –P.; Enko, B.; Seiler, P.; Müller, I. B.; Langer, N.; Jarowski, P. D.; Gescheidt, G.; Diederich, F. “Organic Super-Acceptors with Efficient Intramolecular Charge-Transfer Interactions by [2+2] Cycloadditions of TCNE, TCNQ, and F4-TCNQ to Donor-Substituted Cyanoalkynes.” Chem. Eur. J., 2009, 15, 4111-4123. (Citations: 11).

(18) Jarowski, P. D.; Wu, Y.-L.; Gisslebrecht, J.-P.; Schweizer, W. B.; Diederich, F. "New Donor-acceptor Chromophores by Formal [2+2] Cycloaddition of Donor-substituted Alkynes to Dicyanovinyl Derivatives." Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1312-1322. (Citations: 7).

(19) Wu, Y.-L.; Jarowski, P. D.; Schweizer, W. B.; Diederich, F. "Mechanistic Investigation of the Dipolar [2+2] Cycloaddition– Cycloreversion Reaction between 4-(N,N-Dimethylamino)phenylacetylene and Arylated 1,1-Dicyanovinyl Derivatives To Form Intramolecular Charge- Transfer Chromophores." Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 16, 202-211. (Citations: 2).

(20) Wu, Y.-L.; Bureš, F.; Jarowski, P. D.; Schweizer, W. B.; Boudon, C.; Gisselbrecht, J.-P.; Diederich, F. "Proaromaticity: Organic Charge-Transfer Chromophores with Small HOMO-LUMO Gaps." Chem. Eur. J., 2010, 16, 9592-9605.

(21)  Breiten, B.; Wu, Y. -L.; Jarowski, P. D.; Gisselbrecht, J. –P.; Corinne, B.; Griessar, M.; Onitsch, C.; Gescheidt, G.; Schweizer, W. B.; Langer, N.; Lennartze, C.; Diederich, F. "Donor-substituted Octacyano[4]dendralenes: a New Class of Cyano-rich Nonplanar Organic Acceptors."  Chem. Sci., 2010, ASAP.

Teaching

Level 1 Physics Laboratory