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    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2019 A Short and Efficient Synthesis of the [3]Triangulene Ring SystemAngewandte Chemie International Edition.  131:15940-15943. 2019
    2019 A Short and Efficient Synthesis of the [3]Triangulene Ring System.Angewandte Chemie International Edition.  58:15793-15796. 2019
    2019 Serendipitous Rediscovery of the Facile Cyclization of Z,Z-3,5-Octadiene-1,7-diyne Derivatives to Afford Stable, Substituted Naphthocyclobutadienes.ChemPlusChem.  84:665-672. 2019
    2019 Synthesis of Oligo(1,8-pyrenylene)s: A Series of Functional Molecular Liquids.ChemPlusChem.  84:754-765. 2019
    2019 Acid-catalyzed rearrangements in arenes: interconversions in the quaterphenyl series.Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry.  15:2655-2663. 2019
    2017 Acid-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangements in Arenes: Aryl versus Alkyl Ring Pirouettes in Anthracene and Phenanthrene.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  82:13076-13083. 2017
    2017 Biomimetic Total Synthesis of (±)-Griffipavixanthone via a Cationic Cycloaddition-Cyclization Cascade.Journal of the American Chemical Society.  139:14053-14056. 2017
    2015 Dehydropericyclic Reactions: Symmetry-Controlled Routes to Strained Reactive Intermediates.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  80:11779-11787. 2015
    2015 Scholl Cyclizations of Aryl Naphthalenes: Rearrangement Precedes Cyclization.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  80:9578-9583. 2015
    2015 Atropselective syntheses of (-) and (+) rugulotrosin A utilizing point-to-axial chirality transfer.Nature Chemistry.  7:234-240. 2015
    2014 Microwave Flash Pyrolysis: C9H8 Interconversions and DimerisationsAustralian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science.  67:1301-1308. 2014
    2013 Computational studies on a carbenoid mechanism for the Doering-Moore-Skattebøl reaction.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  78:11815-11823. 2013
    2013 Scalable synthesis of quaterrylene: solution-phase 1H NMR spectroscopy of its oxidative dication.Chemical Communications.  49:9122-9124. 2013
    2013 Biomimetic dehydrogenative Diels-Alder cycloadditions: total syntheses of brosimones A and B.Angewandte Chemie International Edition.  52:8345-8348. 2013
    2013 Beyond frontier molecular orbital theory: a systematic electron transfer model (ETM) for polar bimolecular organic reactions.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  78:1864-1873. 2013
    2012 A computational model for the dimerization of allene.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  77:11096-11100. 2012
    2012 Phenyl shifts in substituted arenes via ipso arenium ions.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  77:9487-9495. 2012
    2011 Concerted vs stepwise mechanisms in dehydro-Diels-Alder reactions.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  76:9320-9328. 2011
    2011 Microwave-based reaction screening: tandem retro-Diels-Alder/Diels-Alder cycloadditions of o-quinol dimers.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  76:8944-8954. 2011
    2011 Reduction of CO2 on a tricarbonyl rhenium(I) complex: modeling a catalytic cycle.The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory.  115:2877-2881. 2011
    2011 Reduction of CO2 on a tricarbonyl rhenium(I) complex: modeling a catalytic cycle.The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory.  115:2877-2881. 2011
    2011 Vinylogous addition of siloxyfurans to benzopyryliums: a concise approach to the tetrahydroxanthone natural products.Journal of the American Chemical Society.  133:1714-1717. 2011
    2010 Dehydropericyclic routes to reactive intermediatesJournal of Physical Organic Chemistry.  23:283-292. 2010
    2010 New Thermal Routes to ortho-BenzyneAustralian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science.  63:1007-1012. 2010
    2009 Microwave flash pyrolysis.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  74:4137-4142. 2009
    2009 Competing mechanistic channels in the oxidation of aldehydes by ozone.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  74:2108-2113. 2009
    2009 Thermal rearrangements of 2-ethynylbiphenyl: a DFT study of competing reaction mechanisms.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  74:499-503. 2009
    2009 Reaction discovery employing macrocycles: transannular cyclizations of macrocyclic bis-lactams.Organic Letters.  11:413-416. 2009
    2006 Strain estimates for small-ring cyclic allenes and butatrienes.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  71:5708-5714. 2006
    2003 Total synthesis of the ubiquitin-activating enzyme inhibitor (+)-panepophenanthrin.Angewandte Chemie International Edition.  42:3913-3917. 2003
    2003 Total synthesis of the quinone epoxide dimer (+)-torreyanic acid: application of a biomimetic oxidation/electrocyclization/Diels-Alder dimerization cascade.Journal of the American Chemical Society.  125:5095-5106. 2003
    2002 Beyond the Roger Brown rearrangement: long-range atom topomerization in conjugated polyynes.Journal of the American Chemical Society.  124:6497-6501. 2002
    2000 Conformational selectivity in the diels-alder cycloaddition: predictions for reactions of s-trans-1,3-butadiene.Journal of Organic Chemistry.  65:7134-7138. 2000
    1999 Intramolecular thermal cyclotrimerization of an acyclic triyne: An uncatalyzed processTetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.  40:4141-4144. 1999
    1998 Generation and study of benzylchlorocarbene from a phenanthrene precursorJournal of the American Chemical Society.  120:8055-8059. 1998
    1998 Laser flash photolysis study of alkylhalocarbenes generated from non-nitrogenous precursorsThe Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory.  102:1507-1513. 1998
    1997 Thermolysis of 1,3,8-nonatriyne: Evidence for intramolecular [2+4] cycloaromatization to a benzyne intermediateJournal of the American Chemical Society.  119:9917-9918. 1997
    1996 Laser flash photolysis study of chlorocarbeneThe Journal of physical chemistry.  100:18426-18430. 1996
    1996 Electrocyclic ring opening modes of Dewar benzenes: Ab initio predictions for Mobius benzene and trans-Dewar benzene as new C6H6 isomersJournal of the American Chemical Society.  118:7381-7385. 1996
    1996 1,2,3-CyclooctatrieneTetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.  37:4907-4910. 1996
    1996 Strained cyclic cumulene intermediates in Diels-Alder cycloadditions of enynes and diynesJournal of the American Chemical Society.  118:4218-4219. 1996
    1995 AB-INITIO CONFORMATIONAL-ANALYSIS OF TRANS-CYCLOHEXENEJournal of Organic Chemistry.  60:1074-1076. 1995
    1995 INTERCONVERSIONS OF CYCLOBUTYNE, CYCLOPENTYNE, CYCLOHEXYNE, AND THEIR CORRESPONDING CYCLOALKYLIDENECARBENESJournal of the American Chemical Society.  117:362-367. 1995
    1994 THE ARGON LASER-JET INITIATED, MULTIPLE-PHOTON (RELUCTANT), ELECTROCYCLIC RING-OPENING OF 10,10-DIPHENYL-9-(10H)-PHENANTHRENONE - A CARBENE AND BIRADICAL MODELING STUDYTetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.  35:5401-5404. 1994
    1993 PHOTOREARRANGEMENTS OF ACYCLIC CONJUGATED ENYNES - A PHOTOCHEMICAL ANALOG OF THE BERGMAN REARRANGEMENTJournal of the American Chemical Society.  115:12167-12168. 1993
    1991 ABINITIO STUDY OF HYDROGEN ABSTRACTION BY TRIPLET CYCLOPROPYLIDENE AND PLANAR TRIPLET ALLENEJournal of Organic Chemistry.  56:6377-6379. 1991
    1991 CUMULENE PHOTOCHEMISTRY - PHOTOREACTIONS OF A STRAINED 1,2-CYCLOOCTADIENEJournal of Organic Chemistry.  56:6372-6376. 1991
    1990 1,2,3-CYCLOHEXATRIENE AND CYCLOHEXEN-3-YNE - 2 NEW HIGHLY STRAINED C6H6 ISOMERSJournal of the American Chemical Society.  112:8578-8579. 1990
    1990 CARBANION PHOTOCHEMISTRY - A NEW PHOTOCHEMICAL ROUTE TO STRAINED CYCLIC ALLENESJournal of the American Chemical Society.  112:6416-6417. 1990
    1990 ABSOLUTE KINETICS OF DICHLOROCARBENE IN SOLUTIONJournal of the American Chemical Society.  112:3217-3218. 1990
    1990 CUMULENE PHOTOCHEMISTRY - SUBSTITUENT EFFECTS ON THE MECHANISM OF 1,2-CYCLONONADIENE PHOTOCHEMISTRYJournal of Organic Chemistry.  55:1043-1047. 1990
    1989 A VALENCE ISOMER TRAPPING PROCEDURE FOR INTRODUCTORY ORGANIC LABORATORY - SYNTHESIS OF A HOMOBARRELENE DERIVATIVEJournal of Chemical Education.  66:873-874. 1989
    1989 STRAINED CYCLIC CUMULENESChemical Reviews.  89:1111-1124. 1989
    1988 COLUMNAR HOMOCONJUGATIONJournal of Organic Chemistry.  53:314-317. 1988
    1987 SMALL-RING CYCLIC CUMULENES - SYNTHESIS AND X-RAY CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF BIS(TRIPHENYLPHOSPHINE)CHLORO(ETA-2-1,2,3-CYCLONONATRIENE)RHODIUMOrganometallics.  6:1909-1912. 1987
    1986 SMALL-RING CYCLIC CUMULENES - SYNTHESIS OF A KINETICALLY STABLE 8 MEMBERED RING ALLENETetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.  27:4679-4682. 1986
    1985 CUMULENE PHOTOCHEMISTRY - EVIDENCE FOR CIS-CYCLOPROPYLIDENE AND TRANS-CYCLOPROPYLIDENE INTERMEDIATES IN TRIPLET PHOTOREACTIONS OF 1,2-CYCLODECADIENEJournal of the American Chemical Society.  107:2187-2189. 1985
    1985 CUMULENE PHOTOCHEMISTRY - PHOTOREARRANGEMENTS OF TETRAPHENYL AND TRIPHENYL-C3 ISOMERSJournal of the American Chemical Society.  107:3963-3971. 1985
    1985 CUMULENE PHOTOCHEMISTRY - SINGLET AND TRIPLET PHOTOREARRANGEMENTS OF 1,2-CYCLONONADIENEJournal of the American Chemical Society.  107:3971-3980. 1985
    1985 PHOTOGENERATION OF TRIPHENYL C-3 RADICAL CATIONS - DEPROTONATION AND NUCLEOPHILIC-ADDITION AS COMPETITIVE PATHWAYSJournal of the American Chemical Society.  107:6615-6620. 1985
    1985 SMALL-RING CYCLIC CUMULENES - THEORETICAL-STUDIES OF THE STRUCTURE AND BARRIER TO INVERSION IN CYCLIC ALLENESJournal of the American Chemical Society.  107:532-537. 1985
    1985 THERMAL REARRANGEMENTS OF CYCLIC ALLENES VIA RETRO-ENE REACTIONSTetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.  26:2499-2502. 1985
    1984 AN ABINITIO MOLECULAR-ORBITAL STUDY OF THE PHENYL RADICALJournal of Organic Chemistry.  49:4857-4859. 1984
    1984 SMALL-RING CYCLIC CUMULENES - THE STRUCTURE AND ENERGETICS OF CYCLIC BUTATRIENES AND THE SYNTHESIS OF 1,2,3-CYCLONONATRIENEJournal of Organic Chemistry.  49:2880-2883. 1984
    1983 A BUTATRIENE CYCLOADDITION EQUIVALENT APPROACH TO THE MULTIPLE LINEAR HOMOLOGATION OF 6-MEMBERED RINGS AND THE SYNTHESIS OF BENZOCYCLOBUTENESJournal of Organic Chemistry.  48:273-276. 1983
    1983 CUMULENE PHOTOCHEMISTRY - PHENYL AND HYDROGEN MIGRATION IN PHENYLALLENE PHOTOREACTIONSTetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.  24:2523-2526. 1983
    1983 CUMULENE PHOTOCHEMISTRY - PHOTO-REARRANGEMENT OF 1,2-CYCLONONADIENE TO A BICYCLIC CYCLOPROPENEJournal of the American Chemical Society.  105:2492-2493. 1983
    1983 CUMULENE PHOTOCHEMISTRY - PHOTOADDITION OF NEUTRAL METHANOL TO PHENYLALLENESTetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.  24:1107-1110. 1983
    1983 POLARIZED NONVERTICAL EXCITED-STATES - FORS MCSCF AND CI STUDY OF TORSION AND BENDING IN ALLENEJournal of the American Chemical Society.  105:7479-7483. 1983
    1982 PI-ORBITAL INTERACTIONS IN MOBIUS-TYPE MOLECULES AS STUDIED BY PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPYHelvetica Chimica Acta.  65:1743-1751. 1982
    1982 SMALL RING CYCLIC ALLENES - AN ABINITIO STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE OF 1,2-CYCLOHEXADIENEJournal of the American Chemical Society.  104:6838-6839. 1982
    1981 PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF BENZOTRICYCLO[3.2.0.02,7]HEPTENE - SINGLET EXCITED-STATE REACTIONS DERIVED FROM CYCLOPROPANE RING CLEAVAGETetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.  22:3171-3174. 1981
    1981 THE SUDDEN POLARIZATION EFFECT - MC-SCF CALCULATIONS ON PLANAR AND 90-DEGREES-TWISTED METHYLENECYCLOPROPENEJournal of the American Chemical Society.  103:3244-3249. 1981
    1979 PHOTO-CHEMICAL SERIES .120. UNUSUAL ORGANIC-PHOTOCHEMISTRY EFFECTED BY CYANO AND METHOXY SUBSTITUTION - EXPLORATORY AND MECHANISTIC ORGANIC-PHOTOCHEMISTRYJournal of the American Chemical Society.  101:6367-6383. 1979
    1978 PHOTOELECTRON AND CHARGE-TRANSFER SPECTRA OF BENZOBICYCLOALKENES - RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THROUGH-SPACE INTERACTIONS AND REACTIVITYJournal of the American Chemical Society.  100:2959-2965. 1978
    1977 CONVENIENT LARGE-SCALE PREPARATION OF BENZOBARRELENEJournal of Organic Chemistry.  42:3758-3759. 1977
    1977 EFFECTS OF A NITRO SUBSTITUENT ON DI-PI-METHANE REARRANGEMENTS OF BENZONORBORNADIENE AND ITS [3.2.1] HOMOLOGJournal of the American Chemical Society.  99:1508-1513. 1977
    1976 PHOTOCHEMICAL REARRANGEMENTS OF SOME BENZO C-9H-10 ISOMERSJournal of the American Chemical Society.  98:2600-2604. 1976
    1975 SUBSTITUENT AND MULTIPLICITY EFFECTS ON REARRANGEMENTS OF SOME BENZO[7,8]BICYCLO[4.2.1]NONA-2,4,7-TRIENESJournal of the American Chemical Society.  97:212-213. 1975
    1973 FACILE ENTRY INTO BENZO[7,8] BICYCLO[4.2.1]NONANE SYSTEMTetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.  14:2149-2152. 1973

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2009 Distorted Alkenes.  103-146. 2009

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2014 Molecular rearrangements through ipso-arenium ions: The biaryl shiftACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2014
    2013 High temperature cationic rearrangements of arenesACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2013
    2012 Beyond FMO Theory: An electron transfer model (ETM) for predicting selectivity in bimolecular reactionsACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2012
    2011 Studies towards the synthesis of tetrahydroxanthone natural productsACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2011
    2009 Advances in microwave flash pyrolysisACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2009
    2008 ORGN 623-Structure and strain in the homologous series of cyclic keteniminesACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2008
    2007 ORGN 497-Graphite-sensitized microwave flash pyrolysis: Making reactive intermediates in the microwaveACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2007
    2007 POLY 648-Degradable polyurethanes based on imine and acetal chemistryACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2007
    2007 POLY 90-Polyurethane foams reinforced by modified carbon nanotubesACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2007
    2005 Density functional study of the chlorine plus peroxymethyl radical reaction.ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U744-U744. 2005
    2002 Degenerate molecular rearrangements of C4H4 and C4H2 isomers.ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U158-U158. 2002
    2002 Pericyclic routes to strained heterocyclic cumulenes: Computational modeling.ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U310-U310. 2002
    2002 Predicting new reactions through computational modeling: Pericyclic routes to strained heterocyclic cumulenes.ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U282-U282. 2002
    2000 Exploiting phenanthrene as a carbene storage device.ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U91-U92. 2000
    2000 Thermal rearrangements of linear polyynes through carbene and trialene intermediates: Theoretical and experimental studies.ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U92-U92. 2000
    1999 Pericyclic routes to strained molecules: Theoretical and experimental studies.ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U88-U88. 1999
    1998 Phenanthrene as a carbene storage deviceACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U33-U33. 1998
    1997 A symphony of variations on the Diels-Alder cycloadditionACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 459-ORGN. 1997
    1995 THE REMARKABLE PHOTOREARRANGEMENTS OF CONJUGATED ENYNESACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 124-ORGN. 1995
    1994 NEW ASPECTS OF C4H4 CHEMISTRY - DO CYCLOBUTYNE AND 1,2-CYCLOBUTADIENE REALLY EXISTACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 283-ORGN. 1994
    1991 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SYNTHESIS OF STRAINED CYCLIC CUMLENESACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 93-ORGN. 1991
    1991 STRAINED CYCLIC CUMULENES - PUSHING THE LIMITS FOR EXISTENCE AND ISOLABILITYACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 17-ORGN. 1991
    1988 HYDROGEN ABSTRACTION BY TRIPLET CYCLOPROPYLIDENE AND PLANAR TRIPLET ALLENEACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 338-ORGN. 1988
    1986 RING SIZE AND SUBSTITUENT EFFECTS IN THE PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF CYCLIC ALLENESACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 4-ORGN. 1986

    Patent

    Year Title
    Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

    Teaching Activities

  • Advanced Organic Chemistry Taught course 2022
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  • Organic Chemistry II Taught course 2022
  • Advanced Organic Chemistry Taught course 2021
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  • Organic Chemistry I Taught course 2020
  • Seminar Taught course 2020
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  • Organic Chemistry I Taught course 2019
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  • Independent Study Taught course 2018
  • Organic Chemistry I Taught course 2018
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  • Independent Study Taught course 2017
  • Organic Chemistry I Taught course 2017
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  • Independent Study Taught course 2017
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  • Organic Chemistry I Taught course 2016
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  • Independent Study Taught course 2014
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  • Education And Training

  • B.S. Chemistry, Syracuse University
  • Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, Syracuse University
  • Full Name

  • Richard Johnson