Albert Haim  
Professor

Personal Information

Date and Place of Birth: March 19, 1931; Paris, France
Citizenship: USA
Business Telephone: (516) 632-7924 and 9032
Facsimile: (516)632-7186
E-mail: ahaim@ccmail.sunysb.edu

Education

High School: Lycee Francais de Montevideo,1936-1948, Bachelier 1948
Undergraduate: Facultad de Quimica, Universidad del Uruguay, 1949-1954, Industrial Chemist, 1954
Graduate: University of Southern California, 1954-1960, Ph. D. 1960
Post-graduate: Stanford University, 1961-1962

Professional Positions

1955-1961, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, Research Associate, University of Southern California
1961-1962, Research Associate, Stanford University
1962-1964, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
1964-1966, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Summers 1965, 1966, Visiting Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1966-1968, Associate Professor, SUNY at Stony Brook
1968-present, Professor, SUNY at Stony Brook
1990-present Associate Editor, Inorganic Chemistry
Fall 1994, Visiting Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Honors, Awards

1952-1954 Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, University of Uruguay
1954 Graduated with Honors, University of Uruguay
1964-1967 Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
1967, 1969, 1970, 1979 Fulbright Fellow
1974, 1975, 1982 Outstanding Teacher Award, Department of Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook
1981 State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
1989-1990 American Chemical Society Lecturer, Midwest and Northeast Circuits
1994 SUNY Stony Brook Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award

International Courses for Graduate Students and Faculty

1967, 1969, 1970, 1979 Universidad del Uruguay
1978 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
1979 Universidade de Santa Catarina, Brazil
1980 Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland
1980 University of Bern, Switzerland
1985 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
1989 Universidad de Tucuman, Argentina

Courses for College and High School Teachers

1987 Chautauqua Course on Inorganic Mechanisms
1991 Course on Solar Energy Conversion for Regional Science Teachers, Stony Brook's Center for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education

Publications

1960-1996 Approximately 100, all in refereed journals.

Recent Publications

Redox Reactions of Mixed-Valence Binuclear Complexes of Ruthenium and Iron: Kinetic vs Thermodynamic Control and Activation Effects via Intramolecular Eectron Transfer. Chapter in Advances in Chemistry Series, Electron Transfer Reactions, American Chemical Society, 1997, in press.

Intramolecular Electron Transfer From Ru(II)EDTA₂- to Co(III)(NH₃)₅³⁺ via Nitrogen Heterocycle Bridging Ligands. Inorg. Chim. Acta 1994, 225, 129. With L.A. Andrade and L. Della Ciana.

Struggles to Correct Published Errors. Nature 1992, 359, 666. With. F. M. Menger.

Imidazole Buffer-Catalyzed Cleavage and Isomerization Reactions of Dinucleotides: The Proposed Mechanism Is Incompatible with the Kinetic Measurements. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 8384.

On the Mechanism Proposed for the Malachite Green-Peroxydisulfate Reaction. Int. J. Chem. Kin. 1992, 24, 1109.

Yields of Singlet Dioxygen Produced in the Reaction Between Excited State Tris- (bipyridine)ruthenium(II) and Triplet Dioxygen in Various Solvents. J. Photochem. Photobiol. A 1992, 63, 167. With K. Zahir.

The Relative Energies of the Molecular Orbitals of Second-Row Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules: The Effect of sp Mixing. J. Chem. Ed. 1991, 68, 737.