Publications at UA

Hsu, T-G.; Zhou, J.; Su, H-W.; Schrage, B. R.; Ziegler, C. J.; Wang, J.* “A Polymer with “Locked” Degradability: Superior Backbone Stability and Accessible Degradability Enabled by Mechanophore Installation”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 2100-2104. Highlighted by JACS spotlight: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.0c01221.

Prior to UA

Barbee, M. H.; Wang, J.; Kouznetsova, T.; Lu, M.; Craig, S. L., “Mechanochemical Ring-Opening of Allylic Epoxides”, Macromolecules 2019, 52, 6234-6240.

Wang, J.; Wang, R.; Gu, Y.; Sourakov, A.; Olsen, B. D.; Johnson, J. A., “Counting loops in sidechain-crosslinked polymers from elastic solids to single-chain nanoparticles”, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 5332-5337.

Bogris, A.; Wang, J.; Anyfantakis, M.; Loppinet, B.; Craig, S. L.; Butt, H.-J.; Fytas, G., “Solvent dependent light-induced structures in gem-dichlorocyclopropanated polybutadiene solutions” J. Phys. Chem. B 2018, 122, 6995-7001.

Wang, J.; Lin, T-S.; Gu, Y.; Wang, R.; Olsen, B. D.; Johnson, J. A., “Counting secondary loops in polymer networks is required for accurate prediction of network elasticity”, ACS Macro. Lett. 2018, 7, 244-249.

Kouznetsova, T. B.; Wang J.; Craig, S. L., “Combined constant force and constant velocity single molecule force spectroscopy of the conrotatory ring opening reaction of benzocyclobutene”, ChemPhysChem, 2017, 18, 1486-1489.

Wang, J.; Kouznetsova, T. B.; Boulatov, R.; Craig, S. L., “Mechanical Gating of a Mechanochemical Reaction Cascade”, Nat. Commun., 2016, 7, 13433.

Wang, J.; Kouznetsova, T. B.; Craig, S. L., “Single-Molecule Observation of a Mechanically Activated Cis-to-Trans Cyclopropane Isomerization”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 10410-10412. (Highlighted by JACS Spotlights, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 11409.)

Wang, J.; Kouznetsova, T. B.; Craig, S. L., “Accelerating a Mechanically Driven anti-Woodward-Hoffmann Ring Opening with a Polymer Lever Arm Effect”, J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80, 11895-11898.

Wang, J.; Ong, M. T.; Kouznetsova, T. B.; Lenhardt, J. M.; Martinez, T. J.; Craig, S. L., “Catch and Release: Orbital Symmetry Guided Reaction Dynamics from a Freed ‘Tension Trapped Transition State’”, J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80, 11773-11778.

Wang, J.; Kouznetsova, T. B.; Craig, S. L., “Reactivity and Mechanism of A Mechanically Activated anti-Woodward-Hoffmann-DePuy Reaction”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 11554-11557.

Lee, B; Niu, Z; Wang, J.; Slebodnick, C.; Craig, S. L., “Relative Mechanical Strengths of Weak Bonds in Sonochemical Polymer Mechanochemistry”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 10826-10832.

Wang, J.; Piskun, I.; Craig, S. L., “Mechanochemically Strengthening of a Multi-mechanophore Benzocyclobutene Polymer”, ACS Macro Lett., 2015, 4, 834-837.

Wang, J.; Kouznetsova, T. B.; Niu, Z.; Ong, M. T.; Klukovich, H. M.; Rheingold, A. L.; Martinez, T. J.; Craig, S. L., “Inducing and Quantifying Forbidden Reactivity with Single Molecule Polymer Mechanochemistry”, Nat. Chem., 2015, 7, 323-327.

Wang, J.; Kouznetsova, T. B.; Kean, Z. S.; Fan, L.; Mar, B. D.; Martinez, T. J.; Craig, S. L., “A Remote Stereochemical Lever Arm Effect in Polymer Mechanochemistry”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 15162-15165.

Shi, J.; Huang, X.; Wang, J.; Li, R., “A Theoretical Study on C−COOH Homolytic Bond Dissociation Enthalpies”, J. Phys. Chem. A 2010, 114, 6263-6272.