Roland Szalay
    assistant professor

• Secondary school: Móricz Zsigmond Gimnázium, Budapest, 1979-1983.
• Military service, 1983-1984.
• M.Sc. Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, 1989.
• Research Fellow (Hungarian Academy of Science), 1989 – 1992.
• "Departmental Engineer", 1992 – 1993.
• Teaching Assistant, 1993 – Febr. 1997.
• Ph.D., Eötvös Loránd University, 1996.
• Assistant Professor, Febr. 1997- .

Research at a Glance

• Organosilicon Chemistry

Preparation, purification and structure determination (MS, NMR-, IR-, UV-spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction) of trimethylsilyl esters of N-carboxylic acids. Study of their solvolysis kinetics by gas chromatography (GC)  and UV spectroscopy. Preparation of trimethylsilylated dicarbamic acid derivatives and study of their thermolysis. Preparation of cyclic N-silylated ureas and study of their reactivity in hydrolysis.

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Research Working Abroad

 
• 1995 (3 weeks): Hungarian - German Intergovernmental Cooperation, University of Bonn (Germany)

Leadership: Prof. Heinrich Wamhoff

Teaching Activities

• General Chemistry course (5 hs per week, for 1st year chemistry teacher undergraduate students)

Detailed programme: Repetition of basic phenomena in chemistry . Introduction to thermochemistry. Reaction rate, elementary processes. Dependence of the rate on the concentration and temperature. Complex reactions, reaction mechanisms. Chemical equilibrium.  Homogeneous and heterogeneous equilibria. Electrochemical equilibria and processes. The Bohr and the quantum mechanical model of the hydrogene atom. The Schrödinger equation. Electronic orbitals and energies in the H atom. Structure of the multielectronic atoms, electron configurations. The periodic system of the elements. Electronic structure of  molecules. Chemical bond in the  H₂⁺,  H₂ and A₂ molecules, respectively. Hybridization. Interactions between molecules. Gases, liquids, solids. Metallic conductors, semiconductors, insulators.
 
• General Chemistry special course (2 hs per week, for 1st-3rd y. stud.)

• Inorganic and Organometallic Synthetic Laboratory Course

 
• Inorganic and Organometallic Special Laboratory Practice

Lab practice in gas chromatography and synthesis of organosilicon compounds

• Training course for the International Chemistry Olympiad

Inorganic qualitative chemical analysis, determination of ions in aqueous solutions.
 
• Courses for secondary school teachers

Forensic Chemistry for Beginners (2 hs course)
Introduction to the Organosilicon Chemistry (2 hs course)

Supervised Students

• Undergraduate research (TDK) students

Judit Vaik 3rd y. chem. st. (leadership with Prof. Gábor Pongor)
Veronika Kudar 3rd y. chem. st.

Award

• Szent-Györgyi Albert Memorial Gold Medal (1998)

Membership

• Commitee on Education in the Institute of Chemistry (KTCs Oktatási Bizottság) (2000)

Publications

 


Papers in referred journals

1.
Szalay Roland, Knausz Dezső, Szakács László, Újszászy Kálmán, Csákvári Béla:
Trimetilszilil-karbamidátok előállítása nitrogéntartalmú heterociklusos vegyületekből, valamint szolvolízisük vizsgálata.
Kémiai Közlemények 74 (1992) 131-137.

2.
R. Szalay, D. Knausz, L. Szakács, K. Újszászy, P. Sohár:
Preparation and solvolysis kinetics of trimethylsilyl N-alkyl-N-phenyl-carbamates.
J. Organomet. Chem. 487 (1995) 267-271.

3.
R. Szalay, D. Knausz, L. Szakács, K. Újszászy, B. Csákvári, P. Sohár:
Solvolysis kinetics of trimethylsilyl esters of aromatic N-carboxylic acids.
J. Organomet. Chem. 493 (1995) 267-270.

4.
R. Szalay, Zs. Böcskei, D. Knausz, Cs. Lovász, K. Újszászy, L. Szakács, P. Sohár:
Preparation, crystal structure and thermal decomposition study of some trimethylsilyl esters of dicarbamic acids.
J. Organomet. Chem. 510 (1996) 93-102.

5.
Zsolt Böcskei, János Rohonczy, Roland Szalay and Dezső Knausz:
Two N-aryl-substituted silyl carbamates.
Acta Crystallogr. Sect. C 52 (1996) 2063-2066.

6.
Szalay Roland:
N-Karbonsav trimetilszilil-észterek előállítása és szolvolíziskinetikai vizsgálata.
Magyar Kémiai Folyóirat — Kémiai Közlemények 3 (1997) 137-138.

7.
Roland Szalay, Dezső Knausz, János Rohonczy and Pál Sohár:
Comparative spectroscopic and mechanistic studies of some trimethylsilyl N-alkyl-N-phenyl-carbamates.
ACH—Models in Chemistry 136 (1999) 549-560.
 

Poster presentations

1.
R. Szalay, D. Knausz, B. Csákvári:
Solvolysis kinetics of silyl carbaminates.
P 2179, 33rd IUPAC Congress, Budapest, 17th-22nd August, 1991.

2.
R. Szalay, D. Knausz, L. Szakács, B. Csákvári:
Solvolysis kinetics of trimethylsilylated N-alkyl-N-phenyl carbamic acids.
P 104, XVth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Warsaw,  9th-14th August, 1992.

3.
L. Zanathy, M. Mörtl, R. Szalay, L. Szepes, D. Knausz:
Structural features of trimethylsilyl carbamic acids.
P 115, XVth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Warsaw,  9th-14th August, 1992.

4.
R. Szalay, D. Knausz, L. Szakács, K. Újszászy, B. Csákvári:
Trimethylsilylated carbaminates with different functional groups. Preparation of some trimethylsilyl esters of dicarbamic acids and study on their thermal reactions.
P 151, Xth International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Poznan, 15th-20th August, 1993.

5.
D. Knausz, L. Szepes, G. Vass, R. Szalay, M. Mörtl, K. Újszászy:
Correlation between structure and spectroscopic behaviour of silylcarbaminates.
P 3, Xth FECHEM Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Agia Pelagia, Crete, 5th-10th September, 1993.

6.
J. Rohonczy, D. Knausz, M. Mörtl, Zs. Kolos, R. Szalay, J. Schraml:
Comparative structure investigation of N,O-trimethylsilyl substituted carbamic acid and hydroxycarbamic acid derivatives by 1H, 13C and 29Si NMR spectroscopy and DNMR spectrum simulation.
P 106, Ist “J. Organomet. Chem.” Symposium on Applied Organometallic Chemistry, Munich,  4th-5th November, 1993.

7.
R. Szalay, D. Knausz, L. Szakács, K. Újszászy, B. Csákvári, P. Sohár:
Solvolysis kinetics of trimethylsilyl esters of aromatic N-carboxylic acids.
P 335, XVIth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Brighton,  10th-15th July, 1994.

8.
J. Rohonczy, R. Szalay, D. Knausz, P. Sohár:
Correlation between solvolysis rate and 29Si NMR chemical shift of trimethylsilyl-N-phenyl-N-alkyl carbaminates.
P 104, 30th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Kyoto, 24th-29th July, 1994.

9.
R. Szalay, D. Knausz, L. Szakács, J. Rohonczy, K. Újszászy, P. Sohár:
New titanium complexes from organosilicon compounds. Preparation and spectroscopical characterization.
P B65, XIth International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Montpellier, 1st-6th September, 1996.

10.
G. Pongor, R. Szalay, Zs. Böcskei, D. Knausz:
Correlations between the molecular structure and hydrolytic reactivity of some N-silylated ureas.
P 219, XIII. FECHEM Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Lisboa, 29th August-3rd September, 1999.

11.
J. Vaik, J. Zádor, R. Szalay, D. Knausz:
Silyl-substituted thiocarbamates.
P 275, XIII. FECHEM Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Lisboa, 29th August-3rd September, 1999.
 

Oral presentations

1.
Szalay Roland:
N-Karbonsav trimetilszilil-észterek előállítása és szolvolíziskinetikai vizsgálata.
EMT Vegyészkonferencia, Cluj, 14th-16th November, 1997.

2.
Knausz Dezső, Kolos Zsuszanna, Mörtl Mária, Szalay Roland:
Karbamidsav-szilil-észterek mint származékképző reagensek.
EMT Vegyészkonferencia, Cluj, 14th-16th November, 1997.

• University textbooks

  Sketches for the 1st-year General Chemistry Course (in Hungarian; 303 photocopied pages of transparencies, 2000)
   

• Kotschy A., Mörtl M., Szalay R., Szepes L., Vass G.: Inorganic and Organometallic Synthetic Laboratory Course (in Hungarian; ELTE Általános és Szervetlen Kémiai Tanszék, 1999)