selected publications
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academic article
- Mixed-strategy approach to band-edge analysis and modeling in semiconductors. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 101:195308. 2020
- The Role of Strain in the Homoaromatization of Semibullvalenes. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 82.0:4136.0-4147.0. 2017
- 4,6-Barbaralanedicarboxy-2,8-dicarboxylic anhydride and 1,5-dimethyl-4,6semibullvalenedicarboxy-2,8-dicarboxylic anhydride: examples of unusual barbaralanes and semibullvalenes that do not undergo the Cope rearrangement. They are locked as the closed tautomers. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 30.0. 2017
- Writing reaction mechanisms: the use of site-specific curly arrows as an aid to comprehension. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 95:334-339. 2017
- An investigation of the observed, but counter-intuitive, stereoselectivity noted during chiral amine synthesis via N-chiral-ketimines. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 9:2103-2112. 2013
- Experimental Verification of the Homoaromaticity of 1,3,5-Cycloheptatriene and Evaluation of the Aromaticity of Tropone and the Tropylium Cation by Use of the Dimethyldihydropyrene Probe. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134:16742-16752. 2012
- An experimental estimate of the relative aromaticity of the cyclooctatetraene dianion by fusion to dimethyldihydropyrene. Chemical Communications. 48:8144-8146. 2012
- The Experimental Realization of a Neutral Homoaromatic Carbocycle. Chemistry-A European Journal. 17:9193-9199. 2011
- Calculation Driven Synthesis of an Excellent Dihydropyrene Negative Photochrome and its Photochemical Properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133:4040-4045. 2011
- Historical Influences of Volcanism and Glaciation in Shaping Mitochondrial DNA Variation and Distribution in Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout across Its Native Range. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 140:91-107. 2011
- Measuring Aromaticity with the Dimethyldihydropyrene Ring Current Probe. Experimental and Computational Studies of the Fulvenes and the Strongly Antiaromatic Cyclopentadienone Reveal Large Mills-Nixon-Type Bond Localization Effects. Synthesis of Fulvene-Fused Dihydropyrenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131:189-199. 2009
- 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
- Theoretical studies on graphyne substructures: Geometry, aromaticity, and electronic properties of the multiply fused dehydrobenzo[12]annulenes. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 72:1437-1442. 2007
- Synthesis and properties of trefoil-shaped tris(hexadehydrotribenzo[12] annulene) and tris(tetradehydrotribenzo[12]annulene). Organic Letters. 8:2933-2936. 2006
- Experimental and theoretical study of stabilization of delocalized forms of semibullvalenes and barbaralanes by dipolar and polarizable solvents. Observation of a delocalized structure that is lower in free energy than the localized form. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 70:3437-3449. 2005
- How important is bishomoaromatic stabilization in determining the relative barrier heights for the degenerate cope rearrangements of semibullvalene, barbaralane, bullvalene, and dihydrobullvalene?. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 70:2627-2632. 2005
- 13-methyl-2,6-dithia[7]metacyclophane: A useful molecule to connect VT NMR results and structure with calculations. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 70:675-680. 2005
- 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
- Pyramidalized olefins: A DFT study of bicyclo[2.1.1]-, -[3.2.1]-, and -[3.2.2]alkenes and their fused derivatives. Two rare examples of pi-facially symmetric pyramidal olefins. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 69:7134-7142. 2004
- Pyramidalized olefins: A DFT study of the homosesquinorbornene and sesquibicyclo[2.2.2]octene nuclei. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 68:9186-9190. 2003
- Gas-phase electron-diffraction investigation and quantum-chemical calculations of the structure of 1,5-dimethylsemibuilvalene-2,4,6,8-tetracarboxylic dianhydride. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 86:1741-1752. 2003
- Diatropicity of 3,4,7,8,9,10,13,14-octadehydro[14]annulenes: A combined experimental and theoretical investigation. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 67:8812-8819. 2002
- Dimethyldihydropyrene-dehydrobenzoannulene hybrids: Studies in aromaticity and photoisomerization. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 67:8798-8811. 2002
- N,N-difluorotris(tert-butyl)silylamine - The first organosilyl difluoroamine. Synthesis and computational studies. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 67:8435-8439. 2002
- A theoretical and experimental scale of aromaticity. The first nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) study of the dimethyldihydropyrene nucleus. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124:13495-13505. 2002
- B3LYP calculations on bishomoaromaticity in substituted semibullvalenes. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 22:1565-1573. 2001
- Lifting of the degeneracy in semibullvalenes by remote and direct substituents: A quantitative study using variable-temperature carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 66:1949-1960. 2001
- Semibullvalenes and related molecules: Ever closer approaches to neutral homoaromaticity. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 227-235. 2001
- Exceptionally pyramidalized olefins: A theoretical study of the cyclopropenyl fused tricycles tricyclo[3.2.1.0(2,4)]oct-2(4)-ene, tricyclo[3.2.1.0(2,4)]octa-2(4),6-diene, tricyclo[3.2.2.0(2,4)]non-2(4)-ene, and tricyclo[3.2.2.0(2,4)]nona-2(4),6-diene. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 65:562-567. 2000
- Qualitative analysis in the beginning organic laboratory. Journal of Chemical Education. 76:1117-1120. 1999
- Pyramidalized olefins: The stereospecific conjugate reduction of a bicyclo[2.2.2]octadiene. Tetrahedron Letters. 40:2689-2690. 1999
- The search for homoaromatic semibullvalenes. 6. X-ray structure and charge density studies of 1,5-dimethyl-2,4,6,8-semibullvalenetetracarboxylic dianhydride in the temperature range 123-15 K. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 64:1180-1190. 1999
- The search for homoaromatic semibullvalenes. 5. 1,5-dimethyl-2,4,6,8-semibullvalenetetracarboxylic dianhydride. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 63:3302-3309. 1998
- Pyramidalized olefins: Ab initio study and X-ray structure determination of bicyclo[2.2.2]octadienes. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 63:5268-5271. 1998
- Theoretical study and X-ray structure determination of dimethyldihydropyrene. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 63:3125-3127. 1998
- Annelated semibullvalenes: A theoretical study of how they ''cope'' with strain. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119:5921-5929. 1997
- Unexpected stereoselectivity in the Weiss-Cook condensation of dimethyl 1,3-acetonedicarboxylate with pentane-2,3-dione. Journal of the Chemical Society-Perkin Transactions 1. 1425-1428. 1997
- endo- and exo-stereochemistry in the Diels-Alder reaction: Kinetic versus thermodynamic control. Journal of Chemical Education. 74:582-585. 1997
- 1,5-Dimethyl-2,4,6,8-semibullvalenetetracarboxylic dianhydride: A close approach to a neutral homoaromatic semibullvalene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 118:4208-4209. 1996
- 1-Benzenesulfonyl-2-Trimethylsilylacetylene: A New Acetylene Equivalent For The Diels-Alder Reaction. Journal of the Chemical Society-Chemical Communications. 1739-1740. 1994
- A Theoretical Investigation Of Through-Space Interactions .III. A Semiempirical Study Of The Cope Rearrangement In Singly Annellated Semibullvalenes. Journal of the Chemical Society-Perkin Transactions 2. 147-150. 1994
- Unusual Stereoselectivity In The Diels-Alder Addition Of Cyclopentadiene With The Bicyclo[2.2.2]Octene Nucleus. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 58:6740-6744. 1993
- New Allene Equivalents For The Diels-Alder Reaction: Vinyl Sulfoxide Cycloadditions. Journal of the Chemical Society-Chemical Communications. 1672-1673. 1991