RICHARD P. JOHNSON

              Norman and Marie Waite Professor of Chemistry

University of New Hampshire                                                                                                      Department of Chemistry    23 Academic Way                                                                 Durham,  New Hampshire  03824

Phone 603-862-2302   FAX  603-862-4278                                                             Labphone  603-862-4087     rpj@cisunix.unh.edh

B.S. Syracuse University  1972

Ph.D. Syracuse University  1976 (with Roger Hahn)

Postdoctoral University of Geneva,  Switzerland 1977 (with Charles Jefford)

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow University of Wisconsin, Madison 1978 (with Howard Zimmerman)

CEPS Teaching Award 2006 

Associate Editor,  Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry

                                          Recent Publications

Iain D. Mackie and Richard P. Johnson  Thermal Rearrangements of 2-Ethynylbiphenyl:  A DFT Study of Competing Reaction Mechanisms,  J. Org. Chem., 2009, 74 , 499–503.

Chong Han,  Sathish Rangarajan, Alicia C Voukides, Aaron B. Beeler, Richard Johnson and John A. Porco, Jr.* "Reaction Discovery Employing Macrocycles: Transannular Cyclizations of Macrocyclic Bis-lactams" Org. Lett., 2009, 11 (2), 413–416.

Richard P. Johnson and Kaleen M. Konrad,  “Strained Cyclic Allenes and Cumulenes”,  Chpt 3. in    “Strained Hydrocarbons:  Beyond the van't Hoff and Le Bel Hypothesis”,  Dodziuk, H. (ed.),  Wiley-VCH, 2009.

Alicia C. Voukides, Kaleen M. Konrad and Richard P. Johnson*,  “Competing Mechanistic Channels in the Oxidation of Aldehydes by Ozone”,  J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 2108–2113.

Hee Yeon Cho, Aida Ajaz, Dibya Himali, Prashant Waske and Richard P. Johnson*  “Microwave Flash Pyrolysis" J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 4137-4142.