Dr Ron Haines

Dr Ron Haines

Lecturer
  • B. Sc. in Pure and Applied Chemistry (Hons 1, University Medal, UNSW, 1978)
  • Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry (UNSW, 1982)
Science
School of Chemistry

I obtained B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees from UNSW and did a postdoc working with Prof. Brian Orr on time resolved laser spectroscopy. I was appointed as a tutor in chemistry and established one of the first courses in Australia on computer applications in chemistry at a time when computers where first finding their way into chemistry laboratories.  In the years since then my interests have broadened to include chemical education and the role of technology in education. My background in physical chemistry has allowed me to co-supervise several Ph. D. students in the area of reaction kinetics and ionic liquids. I am currently the First Year Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator and Chemistry IT Coordinator. 

In addition to my academic publications I was also a contributing author and chemistry consultant for "Scientifica - The comprehensive guide to the world of science" (Millennium House, Sydney, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-921209-22-2).

Phone
+61-2-9385 4718
Location
Room 128, Dalton Building
  • Book Chapters | 2018
    Gilbert A; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2018, 'Selecting Ionic Liquids to Enhance and Control Reaction Outcomes', in Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering, Elsevier, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-409547-2.14212-x
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Harper JB; Haines RS; Keaveney ST, 2017, 'Reactions in Ionic Liquids', in Encyclopedia of Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 2, Wiley
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Hawker RR; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2015, 'Variation of the cation of ionic liquids: the effects on their physicochemical properties and reaction outcome', in Attanasi OA; Noto R; Spinelli D (ed.), Targets in Heterocyclic Systems: Chemistry and Properties, Vol 18, SOC CHIMICA ITALIANA, pp. 141 - 213
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Haines RS, 2008, 'Chemistry', in Borger H; Barnard L (ed.), Scientifica, edn. 1, Millenium House, Sydney, Australia, pp. 132 - 190
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Hsieh AY; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2023, 'The effects of ionic liquids on the ethanolysis of a chloroacenaphthene. Evaluation of the effectiveness of nucleofugality data to predict reaction outcome', RSC Advances, 13, pp. 21036 - 21043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ra04302a
    Journal articles | 2022
    Coney MD; Morris DC; Gilbert A; Prescott SW; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2022, 'Effects of Ionic Liquids on the Nucleofugality of Chloride', Journal of Organic Chemistry, 87, pp. 1767 - 1779, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.1c02043
    Journal articles | 2021
    Gilbert A; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2021, 'The effects of using an ionic liquid as a solvent for a reaction that proceeds through a phenonium ion', Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/poc.4217
    Journal articles | 2020
    Gilbert A; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2020, 'Controlling the reactions of 1-bromogalactose acetate in methanol using ionic liquids as co-solvents', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 18, pp. 5442 - 5452, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ob01198c
    Journal articles | 2020
    Liu KTC; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2020, 'The effect of bisimidazolium-based ionic liquids on a bimolecular substitution process. Are two head(group)s better than one?', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 18, pp. 7388 - 7395, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ob01500h
    Journal articles | 2020
    Schindl A; Hawker RR; Schaffarczyk McHale KS; Liu KTC; Morris DC; Hsieh AY; Gilbert A; Prescott SW; Haines RS; Croft AK; Harper JB; Jäger CM, 2020, 'Controlling the outcome of SN2 reactions in ionic liquids: From rational data set design to predictive linear regression models', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22, pp. 23009 - 23018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0cp04224b
    Journal articles | 2019
    Gilbert A; Bucher G; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2019, 'Correlating ionic liquid solvent effects with solvent parameters for a reaction that proceeds through a xanthylium intermediate', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 17, pp. 9336 - 9342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ob01807g
    Journal articles | 2019
    Gilbert A; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2019, 'Understanding the effects of ionic liquids on a unimolecular substitution process: Correlating solvent parameters with reaction outcome', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 17, pp. 675 - 682, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ob02460j
    Journal articles | 2019
    Schaffarczyk McHale KS; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2019, 'Investigating Variation of the Pnicogen Nucleophilic Heteroatom on Ionic Liquid Solvent Effects in Bimolecular Nucleophilic Substitution Processes', ChemPlusChem, 84, pp. 534 - 539, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201900188
    Journal articles | 2019
    Schaffarczyk McHale KS; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2019, 'The Dependence of Ionic Liquid Solvent Effects on the Nucleophilic Heteroatom in SNAr Reactions. Highlighting the Potential for Control of Selectivity', ChemPlusChem, 84, pp. 465 - 473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201900173
    Journal articles | 2019
    Schaffarczyk McHale KS; Wong MJ; Evans AK; Gilbert A; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2019, 'Understanding the effects of solvate ionic liquids as solvents on substitution processes', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 17, pp. 9243 - 9250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ob01753d
    Journal articles | 2018
    Hawker RR; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2018, 'Predicting solvent effects in ionic liquids: Extension of a nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction on a benzene to a pyridine', Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/poc.3862
    Journal articles | 2018
    Hawker RR; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2018, 'Rational selection of the cation of an ionic liquid to control the reaction outcome of a substitution reaction', Chemical Communications, 54, pp. 2296 - 2299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8cc00241j
    Journal articles | 2018
    Hawker RR; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2018, 'The effect of varying the anion of an ionic liquid on the solvent effects on a nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, pp. 3453 - 3463, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ob00651b
    Journal articles | 2018
    Hawker RR; Wong MJ; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2018, 'Correction: Rationalising the effects of ionic liquids on a nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction (Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (2017) 15 (6433-6440) DOI: 10.1039/C7OB01476G)', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, pp. 9069, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ob90159g
    Journal articles | 2018
    Schaffarczyk McHale KS; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2018, 'Ionic Liquids as Solvents for SN2 Processes. Demonstration of the Complex Interplay of Interactions Resulting in the Observed Solvent Effects', ChemPlusChem, 83, pp. 1162 - 1168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201800510
    Journal articles | 2017
    Hawker RR; Wong MJ; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2017, 'Rationalising the effects of ionic liquids on a nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15, pp. 6433 - 6440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7ob01476g
    Journal articles | 2017
    Keaveney ST; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2017, 'Investigating Solvent Effects of an Ionic Liquid on Pericyclic Reactions through Kinetic Analyses of Simple Rearrangements', ChemPlusChem, 82, pp. 449 - 457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201600585
    Journal articles | 2017
    Keaveney ST; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2017, 'Ionic liquid solvents: The importance of microscopic interactions in predicting organic reaction outcomes', Pure and Applied Chemistry, 89, pp. 745 - 757, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1008
    Journal articles | 2016
    Hawker RR; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2016, 'ChemInform Abstract: Variation of the Cation of Ionic Liquids: The Effects on Their Physicochemical Properties and Reaction Outcome', ChemInform, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chin.201619247
    Journal articles | 2016
    Keaveney ST; White BP; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2016, 'The effects of an ionic liquid on unimolecular substitution processes: The importance of the extent of transition state solvation', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 14, pp. 2572 - 2580, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ob02598b
    Journal articles | 2015
    Keaveney ST; Francis DV; Cao W; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2015, 'Effect of Modifying the Anion of an Ionic Liquid on the Outcome of an SN2 Process', Australian Journal of Chemistry, 68, pp. 31 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH14117
    Journal articles | 2015
    Keaveney ST; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2015, 'Developing principles for predicting ionic liquid effects on reaction outcome. the importance of the anion in controlling microscopic interactions', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 13, pp. 3771 - 3780, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4ob02482f
    Journal articles | 2015
    Keaveney ST; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2015, 'Ionic liquid effects on a multistep process. Increased product formation due to enhancement of all steps', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 13, pp. 8925 - 8936, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ob01214g
    Journal articles | 2015
    Yau HM; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2015, 'A robust, "one-pot" method for acquiring kinetic data for hammett plots used to demonstrate transmission of substituent effects in reactions of aromatic ethyl esters', Journal of Chemical Education, 92, pp. 538 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ed400701m
    Journal articles | 2014
    Keaveney ST; Schaffarczyk McHale KS; Haines RS; Harper JB, 2014, 'Developing principles for predicting ionic liquid effects on reaction outcome. A demonstration using a simple condensation reaction', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 12, pp. 7092 - 7099, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4ob01070a
    Journal articles | 2009
    Haines RS; Wu AH; Zhang H; Coffey J; Huddle T; Lafountaine J; Lim Z; White E; Tuong NT; Lamb RN, 2009, 'Self-cleaning surfaces: A third-year undergraduate research project', Journal of Chemical Education, 86, pp. 365 - 367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ed086p365
    Journal articles | 2007
    Haines RS; Woo DT; Hudson BT; Mori JC; Ngan E; Pak WY, 2007, 'Interdisciplinary educational collaborations: Chemistry and computer science', Journal of Chemical Education, 84, pp. 967 - 970
    Journal articles | 1998
    Haines RS, 1998, 'Teaching Computer concepts to undergraduate chemists', Journal of Chemical Education, 75, pp. 785 - 787
    Journal articles | 1986
    Haines RS; Duval AB; King DA; Orr BJ; Isenor NR, 1986, 'Coherent Raman Spectroscopy of Glyoxal Vapour', Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 17, pp. 177 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrs.1250170204
    Journal articles | 1985
    Haines RS; King DA; Orr BJ; Isenor NR; Duval AB, 1985, 'Fluorescence-detected Raman-optical double-resonance spectroscopy of glyoxal vapor', Journal of the Optical Society of America B - Optical Physics, 2, pp. 1570 - 1581, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.2.001570
    Journal articles | 1984
    Haines RS; Orr BJ; Haub JG, 1984, 'Time-resolved Infrared-Ultraviolet Double-resonance Studies of Rotational Relaxation in D2CO', Chemical Physics Letters, 107, pp. 168 - 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(84)85693-6
    Journal articles | 1983
    Haines RS; Orr BJ; King DA; Isenor NR, 1983, 'Rotationally resolved Raman-optical double resonance with fluorescence detection', Optics Letters, 8, pp. 629 - 631, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.8.000629
    Journal articles | 1981
    Haines RS; Bogaard MP, 1981, 'On the Determination of the Relative Signs of Polarizability Derivatives', Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 90, pp. 287 - 296
    Journal articles | 1980
    Haines RS; Bogaard MP, 1980, 'Raman Intensities and Cartesian Polarizability Derivatives', Molecular Physics, 41, pp. 1281 - 1289
  • Conference Papers | 2003
    Haines RS; Mori JC; Ngan E; Woo DT, 2003, 'User-centred design meets Mac OS X: A collaborative project between Computer Science and Engineering and Chemistry', in Apple University Consortium Academic and Developers Conference, Apple University Consortium Academic and Developers Conference, University of Adelaide, presented at Apple University Consortium Academic and Developers Conference, University of Adelaide, 28 September 2003 - 01 October 2003
    Conference Papers | 1984
    ORR BJ; DUVAL AB; HAINES R; ISENOR NR; KING DA, 1984, 'FLUORESCENCE-DETECTED RAMAN-OPTICAL DOUBLE-RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY', in JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, OPTICAL SOC AMER, pp. 503 - 503, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1984SU90700145&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

  • Vice-Chancellor's award for Teaching Excellence 2011.
  • Vice-Chancellor's team award for Teaching Excellence 2016.

My Research Goals

  • Predict the effect of ionic liquids on reaction rates and products
  • Improve the learning experience in first year chemistry laboratories

My Research in Detail

1. I collaborate with Assoc. Prof. Jason Harper on projects aimed at understanding the processes in chemical reactions at the molecular level, in particular the effect of carrying out reactions in ionic liquids. Ionic liquids are potential replacements for conventional solvents in the chemical industry, which would reduce pollution and costs.

2. I am interested in using technology to improve the student learning experience in Chemistry laboratory classes, for example by providing content on iPads in the laboratory which supplements the traditional emphasis on laboratory skills.

  • Support and supervision of the RACI Titration Competition
  • Providing advice to prospective students at Open Day, Advising Day, and Courses and Careers Day.

My Research Supervision

Alyssa Gilbert - Development of predictive framework for solvent effects in ionic liquids - Thesis submitted (Ph. D. student co-supervised with Assoc. Prof. Jason Harper)

Kenny T. C. Liu - Controlling reactivity and selectivity of substitution reactions using ionic liquids  (Ph. D. student co-supervised with Assoc. Prof. Jason Harper)

Matthew D. Taylor - Investigating the effects of mixtures of ionic liquids on reaction outcomes (Ph. D. student co-supervised with Assoc. Prof. Jason Harper)

 

My Teaching

I have taught in most areas of first year chemistry (atomic and molecular structure, intermolecular forces, chemical equilibria, thermodynamics, kinetics) and higher year physical chemistry (thermodynamics, kinetics, electrochemistry, surfaces, symmetry, quantum mechanics and spectroscopy).

Courses I currently teach

CHEM1001 Introductory Chemistry

CHEM1031 Higher Chemistry A: Atoms, Molecules, and Energy

CHEM1831 Chemistry for Health, Exercise, and Medical Science

CHEM3011 Quantum Nature of Molecules: from Earth to Space

MATS2008 Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria

I am the First Year Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator.