in 1972 with a M.S. in chemical technology. In 1977 he received his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Lomonosov State University in Moscow, Russia; his doctoral thesis, "Synthesis of condensed heterocycles from indolylurethanes", was completed under the supervision of Prof. A. N. Kost. From 1977 to 1991, he conducted research on thioamide chemistry and taught organic chemistry at Technical University of Szczecin. He received his habilitation degree in 1991 from Warsaw University of Technology for research on synthesis, reactions, and properties of the thioamide derivatives of benzene and some fivemembered heterocycles.