Professor of Chemistry

Primary Classes Taught: First and Second Semester General Chemistry

"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" - Occam's razor

Biographical Information

Name: Christopher Daniel Kim

Born: Ithaca, NY (November 7th)

Ethic Background: Half Korean, Quarter German, Quarter British

High School Education: Albany Academy

Undergraduate Education: State University of New York College at Fredonia (B.S. Chemistry - Minor Computer Science)

Graduate Education: State University of New York at Buffalo (Ph.D. Chemistry)

Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Philip Coppens

Ph.D. Thesis Topic: Excited State Crystallography and Select Rhodium Compounds

Post-Doc. Research: Accurate Low Temperature Measurements of Fluorescent Lifetimes of Compounds in the Crystalline State

Academic Family Tree

My Mother's Academic Family Tree - PhD from Ibers

Research Background/Publications:

Ph.D. Thesis Topic

Excited State Crystallography and Select Rhodium Compounds

Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Philip Coppens - Research Group

Publications

Excited state structure by time-resolved X-ray diffraction, C. D. Kim, S. Pillet, G. Wu, W.K. Fullagar and P. Coppens, Acta Crystallogr. A58, 133-137 (2002).

Does C-methylcalix[4]resorcinarene always adopt the crown shape conformation? A resorcinarene/ bipyridine/decamethylruthenocene supramolecular clathrate with a novel framework structure, Y. Zhang, C. D. Kim and P. Coppens Chem. Comm. 2299 - 2300 (2000).

On the photochemical behavior of the [Ru(NH3)4(NO) nicotinamide]3+ cation and the relative stability of light-induced metastable isonitrosyl isomers of Ru complexes, C. D. Kim, I. Novozhilova, M. S. Goodman, K. A. Bagley and P. Coppens, Inorg. Chem. 39, 5791 (2000).

First observation of photo-induced nitrosyl linkage isomers of iron nitrosyl porphyrins, L. Cheng, I. Novozhilova, C. D. Kim, A. Kovalevsky, K. A. Bagley, P. Coppens and G. B. Richter-Addo, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 7142-7143 (2000).

Instrumentation for photo-crystallographic experiments of transient species, W. K. Fullagar, G. Wu, C. Kim, L. Ribaud, G. Sagerman and P. Coppens, J. Synchr. Rad. 7, 229-235 (2000).