selected publications
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academic article
- Suppressing the thermal metacyclophanediene to dihydropyrene isomerization: Synthesis and rearrangement of 8,16-dicyano[2.2]metacyclophane-1,9-diene and evidence supporting the proposed biradicaloid mechanism. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 73:451-456. 2008
- A DFT study of the thermal, orbital symmetry forbidden, cyclophanediene to dihydropyrene electrocyclic reaction. Predictions to improve the dimethyldihydropyrene photoswitches. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127:16207-16214. 2005