INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill B.S. 1957-1961 Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph. D. 1961-1965 Chemistry Free University of Brussels Postdoc. 1965-1966 Electrochemistry B.S., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1961 Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965 Post Doctoral, University of Brussels, Belgium, 1965-66 Professional Experience Professor, 1981 - present, The City College of CUNY Associate Professor, 1974 - 1980, City College of CUNY Associate Professor, 1972-74, University of South Florida Assistant Professor, 1969-72, University of South Florida Instructor, 1966-69, Harvard University

Analytical and Physical Chemistry

Professor Brike’s research activities involve the investigation of electrochemical systems of interest in biochemical redox processes , in energy conversion such as solar to electrical energy ( electrochemical solar cells ) , chemical to electrical energy ( fuel cells), and electrical to chemical energy ( electrosynthesis), and in molecular electronics such as molecules bound to Ag or Au metal clusters. Another area of interest is in the redox and complexation reactions which take place at the active sites of enzymes, especially those enzymes which contain iron porphyrins and vitamin B12 compounds as prosthetic groups. - See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Chemistry/Faculty-Bios/Ronald-L-Birke#sthash.8sYm9k04.dpuf

Vivoni, A. ; Birke, R. L. ; Foucault, R. and Lombardi, J. R. , J. Phys. Chem. B, 107, 5547-5557 ( 2003), Ab Initio Frequency Calculations of Pyridine Adsorbed on an Adatom Model of a SERS Active Site of a Silver Surface http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/jp027642o

Foucault, R; Birke , R. L. and Lombardi, J. R. Langmuir, 19, 8818-8827( 2003). SERS of Surfactants in Monolayer and Multibilayer Forms on an Electrified Ag Surface ,http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/la034631t

Kim, M.-H.; Yan, L.; Birke, R. L. and M.-Z. Czae, " Differential Pulse Polarography for a First-Order EC process and Its Diagnostic Parameters ," Electroanalysis, 15, 1541-1553 ( 2003).

Birke, R. L.; Huang, Q.; Spataru, T.; Gosser, D. K., Jr., J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2006) 128(6); 1922-1936 . Electroreduction of a Series of Alkylcobalamins: Mechanism of Stepwise Reductive Cleavage of the Co-C Bond , http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/ja054479c

Spataru, T.; Birke, R. L. J. Electroanal. Chem. ( 2006), 593, 74-86 " The effect of solvent on the electrode process of methylcobalamine as studied by cyclic voltammetry , "doi:10.1016/j.jelechem.2006.03.032

Spataru, T.; Birke, R, L. J. Phys. Chem. A (2006) 110 (28): 8599-8604 , Carbon-Cobalt Bond Distance and Bond Cleavage in One-Electron Reduced Methylcobalamin :Failure of the DFT Method, http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/jp062741d

Wang, M., Teslova, T.; Xu, F; Spataru, T; Lombardi, J. R., Birke. R. L.; Leona, M. J. Phys. Chem. C (2007) 111, 3038-3043, Raman and Surface Raman Scattering of 3-Hydroxflavone http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/jp062100i

Wang, M.; Spataru, T; DOI: 10.1002/jrs.1695 J. Phys. Chem. C (2007) 111, 3044-3052, Time-Resolved Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Studies of 3-Hydroxflavoneon a Ag Electrode. http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=0.1021/jp0650937

Teslova, T.; Corredor, C.; Livingstone, R.; F; Spataru, T; Birke. R. L. ; Lombardi, J. R.; Canamares, M. V. Leona, M. (2007) J. Raman Spectrosc., (2007) 38, 802-818, Raman and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectra of flavone and several Hydroxy Derivatives. DOI: 10.1002/jrs.1695

Lombardi, R. L. and Birke, R. L. , J. Chem. Phys. (2007) 126, 244709, Time-dependent picture of the charge-transfer contributions to surface Raman spectroscopy, doi:10.1063/1.2748386

Lombardi, R. L. and Birke, R. L., “ A Unified Approach to Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy” , J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 5605-5617 (2008)

Chenal, Cat ; Birke, R. L.; Lombardi , J. R. “Determination of the Degree of Charge-Transfer Contributions to Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”, ChemPhysChem, 9, 1617-1623 (2008) .

Canamares, M. V.; Chenal, Cat; Birke, R. L.; Lombardi, J. R. “ DFT, SERS, and Single-Molecule SERS of Crystal Violet”, J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 20295-20300 (2008).

Lombardi, J. R. ; Birke, R. L “ A Unified View of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering” Acc. of Chem. Res., 42, 734-742 ( 2009).

Lombardi, R. L. and Birke, R. L., “ Excitation Profiles and Continuum in SERS: Identification of Fano Line Shapes” , J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 7812-7815 (2010)

Birke, R. L. ; Znamenskiy, V. ; and Lombardi, R. L. “ A Charge-transfer surface enhanced Raman scttering model from time-dependent density functional theory calculations on a Ag10-pyridene complex ” , J. Chem. Phys. 132 , 214707(2010).

Lombardi, R. L., Birke, R. L., Haran, G., “ Single Molecule SERS Spectral Blinking and Vibronic Coupling” , J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 4540-4545 (2011)

Lombardi, R. L. and Birke, R. L., “The theory of surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering” , J. Chem. Phys. , 136, 144704 (2012)

Eisenberg, A.; Likhtina , Y.; Znamenskiy, V.; Birke , R. L. , “ Electronic Spectroscopy and Computational Studies of Glutathionylco(III)balamin” , J. Phys. Chem. A. , 116, 6851-6869 (2012)