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Howard E. Zimmerman is a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

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in 1980 and the recipient of the 1985 American Institute of Chemists

American Institute of Chemists

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Pioneering Award.

Howard E. Zimmerman is a native of Connecticut

Connecticut

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. During World War II

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he served in the U.S. Armored Corps in Europe where he was a tank gunner. His final rank was technical sergeant

Technical Sergeant

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. he obtained a B. S. in Chemistry in 1950 and a Ph. D in 1953 both from Yale University

Yale University

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. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a National Research Council

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fellowship from 1953 to 1954 working with R. B. Woodward (Harvard). From 1954 to 1960 he was Assistant Professor at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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. Since 1960 he has been Associate Professor and then Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Since 1990 he has been Hilldale and A. C. Cope Professor of Chemistry. He has over 285 publications (including 11 chapters).

Zimmerman has given ACS Short Courses on Organic Quantum chemistry

Quantum chemistry

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and Molecular orbital theory

Molecular orbital theory

In chemistry, molecular orbital theory is a method for determining molecular structure in which electrons are not assigned to individual bonds between atoms, but are treated as moving under the influence of the nuclei in the whole molecule...

. He authored a 1975 textbook entitled Quantum Mechanics for Organic Chemists. Zimmerman was the organizer of the 1972 IUPAC Photochemistry

Photochemistry

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Symposium (Baden-Baden

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) and of five Pacifichem Symposia – the last being Pacifichem 2010.

Honors

Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi
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The Chittenden Award given to the top B.S. graduate in the Yale class of 1950
The first Northeast ACS Award for Photochemistry (1971)
The ACS James Flack Norris Award
James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry
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in Physical Organic Chemistry (1976)
The Halpern Award of the New York Academy of Sciences
New York Academy of Sciences
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(1980)
Election to the National Academy of Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences
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in 1980
Recipient of the 1985 American Institute of Chemists Pioneering Award
A Senior Alexander von Humboldt Award (1988)
The (1990) Hilldale Award in the Physical Sciences from the University of Wisconsin
In 1991 the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the ACS
The 2006 IUPAC Porter Medal for Photochemical Research

Selected bibliography

"The Stereochemistry of the Ketonization Reaction of Enols," Zimmerman, H. E. J. Org. Chem., 1955, 20, 549-557. ISSN: 0022-3263
"The Stereochemistry of the Ivanov and Reformatsky Reactions. I," Zimmerman, H. E.; Traxler, M. D. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1957, 79, 1920-1923. ISSN:0002-7863
"The Photochemical Rearrangement of 4,4-Diphenylcyclohexadienone. Paper I on a General Theory of Photochemical Reactions," Zimmerman, H. E.; Schuster, D. I. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1961, 83, 4486-4487. ISSN:0002-7863
"On Molecular Orbital Correlation Diagrams, the Occurrence of Möbius Systems in Cyclization Reactions, and Factors Controlling Ground and Excited State Reactions. I," Zimmerman, H. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1966, 88, 1564-1565. ISSN:0002-7863
"Photochemical Migratory Aptitudes in Cyclohexenones. Mechanistic and Exploratory Organic Photochemistry. XXIII," Zimmerman, H. E.; Rieke, R. D.; Scheffer, J. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1967, 89, 2033-2047. ISSN:0002-7863
"The Di-π-Methane Rearrangement. Interaction of Electronically Excited Vinyl Chromophores. Zimmerman, H. E.; Mariano, P. S. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1969, 91, 1718-1727. ISSN:0002-7863
"The Barrelene to Semibullvalene Transformation. Correlation of Excited State Potential Energy Surfaces With Reactivity. Mechanistic and Exploratory Organic Photochemistry. XLIV," Zimmerman, H. E.; Binkley, R. W.; Givens, R. S.; Sherwin, M. A.; Grunewald, G. L.; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1969, 91, 3316-3323. ISSN:0002-7863 .
"The Möbius-Hückel Concept in Organic Chemistry. Application to Organic Molecules and Reactions," Zimmerman, H. E. Acc. Chem. Res., 1971, 4, 272-280. ISSN:0001-4842
"Quantum Mechanics for Organic Chemists," Zimmerman, H. E. Academic Press, New York, 1975. ISBN 012781650X
"Some Theoretical Aspects of Organic Photochemistry," Zimmerman, H. E. Accts. of Chem. Research, 1982, 10, 312-317. ISSN:0001-4842
"Kinetic Protonation of Enols, Enolates and Analogs; The Stereochemistry of Ketonization," Zimmerman, H. E.. Accounts of Chem. Res.', 1987, 20, 263-268. ISSN:0001-4842
"Regioselectivity of the Birch Reduction", Zimmerman, H. E.; Wang, P. A., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1993, 115, 2205-2216. ISSN:0002-7863
"The Meta Effect in Organic Photochemistry; Mechanistic and Exploratory Organic Photochemistry", Zimmerman, H. E., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 8988-8991. ISSN:0002-7863
"Synthetic Aspects of the Di-π-methane Rearrangement", Zimmerman, H. E.; Armesto, D. Chem. Revs, 1996, 96, 3065-3112. ISSN:0009-2665
"Energy Distribution and Redistribution and Chemical Reactivity. The Generalized Delta Overlap-Density Method for Ground State and Electron Transfer Reactions; A new Quantitative Counterpart of Electron Pushing”, Zimmerman, H. E.; Alabugin, I. V. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 121, 2265-2270 ISSN:0002-7863
“Inter and Intramolecular Stereoselective Protonation of Enols”, Zimmerman, H. E.; Wang, P., J. Org. Chem. 2002, 69, 9216-9226. ISSN:0022-3263
"Triplet Photochemistry of Vinyl Cyclopropenes; Mechanistic and Exploratory Organic Photochemistry", Zimmerman, H. E., J Org. Chem. 2009, 73, 1247-1251. ISSN:0022-3263.

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