Johnson Group Publication List
9. R. P. Johnson* and M. W. Schmidt, "The Sudden Polarization
Effect: MCSCF Calculations on Twisted Methylenecyclopropene," J.
Am. Chem. Soc . , 103 , 3244-3249
(1981).
10. R. P. Johnson* and K. Schlimgen Davis, "Photochemistry of Benzotricyclo
[3.2.0.02,7]heptene: Singlet Excited State Reactions Derived from Cyclopropane
Ring Cleavage," Tetrahedron Letters , 3171-3174 (1981).
11. E. Haselbach*, L. Neuhaus, R. P. Johnson, K. N. Houk and M. N. Paddon-
Row, " Orbital Interactions in Mobius-Type Molecules as Studied by
Photoelectron Spectroscopy", Helv. Chim. Acta , 65
, 1743-1751 (1982).
12. M. W. Schmidt, R. O. Angus, Jr. and R. P. Johnson*, "Small-Ring
Cyclic Allenes: An Ab Initio Study of 1,2-Cyclohexadiene", J.
Am. Chem. Soc . , 104 , 6838-6839
(1982).
13. R.O. Angus, Jr. and R.P. Johnson*, "A Butatriene Cycloaddition
Equivalent Approach to the Multiple Linear Homologation of Six- Membered
Rings and the Synthesis of Benzocyclobutenes", J. Org. Chem
. , 48 , 273-277 (1983).
14. M.W. Klett and R.P. Johnson*, "Cumulene Photochemistry: Photoaddition
of Neutral Methanol to Phenylallenes", Tetrahedron Letters
, 1107-1110 (1983).
15. T.J. Stierman and R.P. Johnson*, "Cumulene Photochemistry: Photorearrangement
of 1,2-Cyclononadiene to a Bicyclic Cyclopropene", J. Am. Chem.
Soc . 105 , 2492-2493 (1983).
16. M. W. Klett and R. P. Johnson*, "Cumulene Photochemistry: Phenyl
and Hydrogen Migration in Phenylallene Photoreactions", Tetrahedron
Letters 2523-2526 (1983).
17. B. Lam and R. P. Johnson*, "Polarized Nonvertical Excited States:
A FORS-MCSCF and CI Study of Torsion and Bending in Allene", J.
Am. Chem. Soc . , 105 , 7479-7483
(1983).
18. R. O. Angus, Jr. and R. P. Johnson* "Small-Ring Cyclic Cumulenes:
The Structure and Energetics of Cyclic Butatrienes and the Synthesis of
1,2,3-Cyclononatriene", J. Org. Chem .
, 49 , 2880-2883 (1984).
19. R. P. Johnson, "An
Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Study
of the Phenyl Radical", J. Org. Chem .
, 49 , 4857-4859 (1984).
20. R. O. Angus, Jr., M. W. Schmidt and R. P. Johnson*, "Small-Ring
Cyclic Cumulenes: Theoretical Studies of the Structure and Barrier to Inversion
in Cyclic Allenes", J. Am. Chem. Soc .
, 107 , 532-537 (1985).
21. J. D. Price and R. P. Johnson*, "Cumulene Photochemistry: Evidence
for Cis and Trans Cyclopropylidene Intermediates
in the Photoreactions of 1,2-cyclodecadiene", J. Am. Chem. Soc.
, 107 , 2187-2189 (1985).
22. J. D. Price and R. P. Johnson*, "Thermal Rearrangements of Cyclic
Allenes via Retro-Ene Reactions:, Tetrahedron Letters , 2499-2502
(1985).
23. R. P. Johnson, "Cumulene Photochemistry", Organic Photochemistry
, Volume 7, Chpt. 2, A. Padwa, Editor, 1985.
24. M. W. Klett and R.P. Johnson*, "Cumulene Photochemistry: Photorearrangements
of Tetraphenyl and Triphenyl C3 Isomers", J. Am. Chem. Soc
. 107, 3963-3971 (1985).
25. T. J. Stierman and R.P. Johnson*, "Cumulene Photochemistry: Singlet
and Triplet Photorearrangements of 1,2-Cyclononadiene", J. Am.
Chem. Soc . , 107, 3971-3980 (1985).
26. M. W. Klett and R. P. Johnson*, "Photogeneration of Triphenyl C3
Radical Cations: Pathways Involving Deprotonation and Nucleophilic Addition",
J. Am. Chem. Soc . , 107
, 6615-6620 (1985).
27. R. P. Johnson "The Structure and Energetics of Cyclic Alkenes,
Alkynes, and Cumulenes", a chapter for "Molecular Structures and
Energetics", Volume 3, Verlag-Chemie International, J.F. Liebman and
A. Greenberg, (Eds.), 1986.
28. J. D. Price and R. P. Johnson*, "Small-Ring Cyclic Cumulenes: Synthesis
of a Kinetically Stable 1,2- Cyclooctadiene", J.D. Price and R.P. Johnson*,
Tetrahedron Letters 27 , 4679 4682 (1986).
29. R. O. Angus Jr., M. Janakiraman, R. A. Jacobsen* and R. P. Johnson*,
"Synthesis and X-Ray Crystal Structure of Bis(triphenylphosphine) chloro-(1,2,3-cyclononatriene)rhodium",
Organometallics . , 6 , 1909
(1987)
30. R. O. Angus, Jr. and R. P. Johnson*, "Columnar Homoconjugation",
J. Org. Chem . , 53 , 314
317 (1988).
31. R. P. Johnson, "Cyclic Cumulenes", an invited chapter for
"Advances in Theoretically Interesting Molecules", R. P. Thummel,
Editor, JAI Press, 1989.
32. D. W. Kurtz* and R. P. Johnson, " A Valence Isomer Trapping Procedure
for Introductory Organic Laboratory: Synthesis of a Homobarrelene Derivative",
J. Chem. Educ ., 66 , 873 874 (1989).
33. R. P. Johnson, "Strained Cyclic Cumulenes", Chem. Rev
., 89 , 1111 1124 (1989).
34. T. J. Stierman, W. M. Shakespeare and R. P. Johnson*,"Cumulene
Photochemistry: Substituent Effects on the Mechanism of 1,2 Cyclononadiene
Photochemistry", J. Org. Chem . , 55
, 1043 1047 (1990).
35. J. E. Chateauneuf*, R. P. Johnson* and M. M. Kirchhoff, "Absolute
Kinetics of Dichlorocarbene in Solution", J. Am. Chem. Soc
. , 112 , 3217 3218 (1990).
36. L. M. Tolbert*, Md. N. Islam, R. P. Johnson*, P. M. Loiselle and W.
C. Shakespeare, "Carbanion Photochemistry: A New Photochemical Route
to Strained Cyclic Allenes", J. Am. Chem. Soc .
,112 , 6416 6417 (1990).
37. W. C. Shakespeare and R. P. Johnson*, "1,2,3 Cyclohexatriene and
Cyclohexen 3-yne: Two New Highly Strained C6H6 Isomers", J. Am.
Chem. Soc . ,112 , 8578 8579 (1990).
38. W. C. Shakespeare and R. P. Johnson*, "An Ab Initio Study of Hydrogen
Abstraction by Triplet Cyclopropylidene and Planar Triplet Allene", J. Org. Chem
. 56 ,
377 6379 (1991).
39. J. D. Price and R. P. Johnson*, "Cumulene Photochemistry: Photoreactions
of a Strained 1,2-Cyclooctadiene", J. Org. Chem .
56 , 6372 6376 (1991).
40. Manli Zheng, Kenneth J. DiRico, Mary M. Kirchhoff, Kristine Phillips,
Lisa M. Cuff and Richard P. Johnson*, "Photorearrangements of Acyclic
Conjugated Enynes: A Photochemical Analogue of the Bergman Rearrangement"
Journal of the American Chemical Society , 115
, 12167 12168 (1993).
41. R. Marshall Wilson* Tatiana N. Romanova, Ardeshir Azadnia, Jeanette
A. Krause Bauer and Richard P. Johnson*, "The Argon Laser Jet Initiated
Multiple Photon (Reluctant), Electrocyclic Ring Opening of 10,10 Diphenyl
9 (10H) phenanthrenone : A Carbene and Biradical Modeling Study" Tetrahedron
Letters 35 , 5401 5404 (1994).
42. Richard P. Johnson* and Kimberly J. Daoust, "Interconversions of
Cyclobutyne, Cyclopentyne, Cyclohexyne and Their Corresponding Cycloalkylidenecarbenes"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117
, 362 367 (1995)
43. Richard P. Johnson* and Kenneth DiRico, "Ab Initio Conformational
Analysis of trans Cyclohexene", J. Org. Chem.
, 60 , 1074 1076 (1995).
44. Richard C. Burrell, Kimberly J. Daoust, Alexander Z. Bradley, Kenneth
J. DiRico and Richard P. Johnson* "Strained Cyclic Cumulene Intermediates
in Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of Enynes and Diynes", Journal
of the American Chemical Society , 118 , 4218 - 4219
(1996).
45. Susana Hernandez, Mary M. Kirchhoff, Stephen G. Swartz Jr. and Richard P. Johnson*, "1,2,3-Cyclooctatriene", Tetrahedron Letters. 37, 4907 - 4910 (1996).
46. Richard P. Johnson* and Kimberly J. Daoust, "Electrocyclic Ring Opening Modes of Dewar Benzenes: Ab Initio Predictions for Möbius Benzene and trans-Dewar Benzene as New C6H6 Isomers", J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 1996, 118, 7381 - 7385.
47. Marc Robert, John P. Toscano, Matthew S. Platz*, Sarah C. Abbot, Mary M. Kirchhoff, and Richard P. Johnson*, “A Laser Flash Photolysis Study of Chlorocarbene”, J. Physical Chem. 1996, 100, 18426 - 18430.
48. Alexander Z. Bradley and Richard P. Johnson*, "Thermolysis of 1,3,8-Nonatriyne: Evidence for Intramolecular Cycloaromatization to a Benzyne Intermediate", J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 1997, 119, 9917 - 9918.
49. Marc Robert, Igor Likhotvorik, Matthew S. Platz*, Sarah C. Abbot, Mary M. Kirchhoff, and Richard P. Johnson*, “A Laser Flash Photolysis Study of Alkylhalocarbenes Generated from Non-Nitrogenous Precursors”, J. Physical Chem. 1998, 102, 1507-1512.
50. M. Nigam, M. S. Platz*, B. M. Showalter, J. P. Toscano, R. P. Johnson*, S. C. Abbot and M. M. Kirchhoff, "Generation and Study of Benzylchlorocarbene from a Phenanthrene Precursor", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 8055 - 8059.
51. Martin G. Kociolek and Richard P. Johnson*, "Intramolecular Thermal Cyclotrimerization of an Acyclic Triyne: An Uncatalyzed Process", Tetrahedron Letters , 1999, 40, 4141 - 4144.
52. Alexander Z. Bradley, Martin G. Kociolek and Richard P. Johnson , "Conformational Selectivity in the Diels-Alder Cycloaddition: Predictions for Reactions of s-trans-1,3-Butadienes " J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 7134 - 7138.
53. Richard P. Johnson, "From Photochemistry to Strained Molecules...and Back Again", Inter-American Photochemical Society Newsletter 2000, 23, 56-64.
54. John E. Mabry and Richard P. Johnson "Beyond the Brown Rearrangement: A Trialene Mechanism for Long Range Carbon Automerization in Conjugated Polyynes", J. Am. Chem. Soc. February, 2002, 124, 6497 - 6501.
55. Chaomin Li, Richard P. Johnson and John A. Porco, Jr. "Total Synthesis of the Quinone Epoxide Dimer (+)-Torreyanic Acid: Application of a Biomimetic Oxidation/ Electrocyclization/Diels-Alder Dimerization Cascade", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 5095-5106.
56. Xiaoguang Lei, Richard P. Johnson and John A. Porco Jr., “Total Synthesis of the Ubiquitin-Activating Enzyme Inhibitor (+)-Panepophenanthrin”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 3913 – 3917.
57. Book chapter: R. P. Johnson, “Highly Unsaturated Cyclobutane Derivatives”, The Chemistry of Cyclobutanes, Z. Rappoport and J. F. Liebman, Eds., Chapter 14, p 589 – 616, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
58. Kimberly J. Daoust, Susanna M. Hernandez, Kaleen M. Konrad, Iain D. Mackie, James Winstanley Jr. and Richard P. Johnson* “Strain Estimates for Small-Ring Cyclic Allenes and Butatrienes” J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 5708 – 5714.
59. Kacperski, Michal; Waske, Prashant A.; Durant, Yvon G.*; Johnson, Richard P.* Degradable polyurethanes based on imine and acetal chemistry. Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 2007, 48(2), 202.
60. Kacperski, Michal; Waske, Prashant A.; Durant, Yvon G.*; Johnson, Richard P.* “Polyurethane foams reinforced by modified carbon nanotubes.” Polymer Preprints (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 2007, 48(2), 429-430.
61. Iain D. Mackie and Richard P. Johnson Thermal Rearrangements of 2-Ethynylbiphenyl: A DFT Study of Competing Reaction Mechanisms, (Featured Article). J. Org. Chem., 2009, 74 , 499–503.
62. 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.
63. 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.
64. 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.
65. Hee Yeon Cho, Aida Ajaz, Dibya Himali, Prashant Waske and Richard P. Johnson* “Microwave Flash Pyrolysis" J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 4137-4142.
Book Reviews
"Sources and Applications of Ultraviolet Radiation", by Roger Phillips, Academic Press, 1983, Review: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 5583, (1985).
"Excited States and Photochemistry of Organic Molecules" by Martin Klessinger and Josef Michl, VCH Publishers, Inc. 1995, Photochemistry and Photobiology, (1996), 64(1), 229.
“Modern Allene Chemistry”, Volumes 1-2 Edited by Norbert Krause (University of Dortmund, Germany) and A. Stephen K. Hashmi (University of Stuttgart, Germany). Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim. 2004. Johnson, R. P. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005; 127(47); 16748.