Aryeh Frimer

Research Area - Active Oxygen Chemistry

1. The synthesis of strained olefins and their photosensitized reactions with singlet and triplet oxygen.

2. The organic chemistry of active oxygen species within organic media, liposomal lipid bilayers, and biomembranes.

3. The preparation of high temperature thermo-oxidatively stable aerospace polymers.

4. The preparation, characterization and neutralization of green reduced sensitivity high energy compounds.

Dr. Aryeh A. Frimer is The Ethel and David Resnick Professor of Active Oxygen Chemistry and former Chemistry Department Chairman at Bar Ilan University.  He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brooklyn College with a B.S. degree and highest Departmental Honors in Chemistry in 1969.  Upon completing his Ph.D. at Harvard University with Paul D. Bartlett in 1974, he became a Sr. Weizmann Post-Doctoral Fellow with Dov Elad at The Weizmann Institute of Science, before joining the faculty of Bar Ilan in 1975. From 1982-3 he served as Sr. Visiting Scientist at the Medical Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1985, together with Ionel Rosental, he co-edited two special issues of the Israeli Journal of Chemistry on “Active Oxygen Chemistry”. In the same year, the Chemical Rubber Company published his four volume series on "Singlet O2". From 1990-2004, Prof. Frimer served as a Senior Research Associate at the Materials Division of NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, as a Fellow of either the National Research Council or the Ohio Aerospace Institute. Professor Frimer has published 130 articles, reviews and books in the area of active oxygen chemistry and oxidative processes, and has given presentations at more than 100 scientific meetings.