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  • Roth, A. D.; Koldasbay, Z.; Ford, B. H.; Kairbek, K.; Ahn, H.; Hardikar, T. S.; Lane, K. M.; Haynes, S. M.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Photochemical Generation of Ketenes from Phenanthrene-based Cyclobutanones” Tetrahedron, 2024, 168, 134344.
  • Anderson, T. E.; Chabuka, B. K.; Alabugin, I. V.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Phillips, D. L. “Generation and Interception of Bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-2-yne: An Experimental and Theoretical Mechanistic Study” Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 14573 (featured on cover).
  • Anderson, T. E.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Phillips, D. L. “Probing the alkylidene carbene–strained alkyne equilibrium in polycyclic systems via the Fritsch–Buttenberg–Wiechell rearrangement” Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 8313.
  • Roth, A. D.; Ramgren, D. R.; Wen, Y.; Michie, M. S.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Photochemical Generation of Allenylidenes from Cyclopropanated Phenanthrenes: An Experimental and Computational Study” J. Org. Chem. 2024, 89, 7503.
  • Roth, A. D.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Formation and Rearrangement of a Congested Spiropentane from the Trapping of Dibenzonorcarynyliden(e/oid) by Phencyclone” Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 3840.
  • Roth, A. D.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Carbenes from Cyclopropanated Aromatics” Org. Biomol. Chem., 2023, 21, 9482. (Invited review article).
  • Roth, A. D.; Wamsley, C.E.; Haynes, S. M.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Adamantylidenecarbene: Photochemical Generation, Trapping, and Theoretical Studies” J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 14413.
  • Anderson, T. E.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Phillips, D. L. “Formation of 3-Oxa- and 3-Thiacyclohexyne from Ring Expansion of Heterocyclic Alkylidene Carbenes: A Mechanistic Study” Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 1364.
  • Roth, A. D.; Thamattoor, D.M. “Polymorphism in 9-[(9H-Fluoren-9-ylidene)methyl]phenanthrene” Cryst. Growth Des. 2022, 22, 4757.
  • Sarkar, S. K.; Ko, M.; Bai, X.; Du, L.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Phillips, D. L. “Detection of Ylide Formation Between an Alkylidenecarbene and Acetonitrile by Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 17090.
  • Phelan, Z. K.; Weiss, P. S.; He, Y.; Guan, Z.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Griffith, D. R. “Synthetic Entry to the 2-azatricyclo[4.3.2.04,9]undecane Ring System via Tropone” J. Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 2202.
  • DeAngelo, J. D.; Hatano, S.; Thamattoor, D. M., “Generation and Rearrangement of (1- Hydroxycyclopropyl)- and (1-Hydroxycyclobutyl)carbene” Aust. J. Chem. 2019, 72, 890. (Invited contribution)
  • Thu Le, N. N.; Klinkerch, E. J.; Thamattoor, D. M., Stereochemistry of Dichlorocarbene Addition to Alkenes: A Collaborative, Discovery-Based Experiment for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory. J. Chem. Educ. 2019, 96, 1727.
  • Le, N. N. T.; Just, J.; Pankauski, J. M.; Rablen, P. R.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Ring Expansion of Alkylidenecarbenes Derived from Lactams, Lactones, and Thiolactones into Strained Heterocyclic Alkynes: A Theoretical Study” Molecules 2019, 24, (3), 593. (Invited contribution)
  • Du, L.; Lan, X.; Phillips, D. L.; Coldren, W. H.; Hadad, C. M.; Yang, X.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Direct Observation of an Alkylidenecarbene by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy” J. Phys. Chem. A 2018, 122, 6852.
  • Esquivel-Amores, E.; Rogers, K.; Thamattoor, L. R.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Double Trap: A Single Product from the THF-Initiated Interception of a Cyclopropylidene(oid) and Its Rearranged Strained Cyclic Allene” J. Mol. Struct. 2018, 1172, 108. (Invited contribution)
  • Miles, W. H.; Madison, C. M.; Kim, C. Y.; Sweitzer, D. J.; Valent, S. D.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Synthesis of stemofurans C, L and T using organomanganese arene chemistry; revised structure for stemofuran L.” J. Organomet. Chem. 2017, 851, 218.
  • Fan, R.; Wen, Y.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Photochemical Generation and Trapping of 3-Oxacyclohexyne” Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017, 15, 8270. (Invited contribution)
  • Maurer, D. P.; Fan, R.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Photochemical Generation of Strained Cycloalkynes from Methylenecyclopropanes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 4499. (Highlighted in Synfacts.)
  • Kim, N. S.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Crystal Structure of 4,5-Dibromophenanthrene” Acta Cryst. E73 2017, 539.
  • Miles, W. H.; Robinson, M. J.; Lessard, S. G.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Through-Space Shielding Effects of Metal-Complexed Phenyl Rings” J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 10791.
  • Yang, X.; Languet, K. L.; Thamattoor, D. M. “An Experimental and Computational Investigation of (α-Methylbenzylidene)carbene” J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 8194. 
  • Miles, W. H.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Cerbone, R. E.; Beideman, D. J.; Zeiders, S. M.; Jasiewicz, N. E.; Petersen, S. M.;  Naimoli, B. J.; Leo, J. V.; Suarsana, I.B. G.; George, J. S.; Albano, N. J.  “Diels-Alder Reactions of γ-Hydroxybutenolides: Approach to the Himbacine Tricyclic Core” Synthesis, 2016, 48, 924.
  • Hardikar, T. S.; Warren, M. A.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Photochemistry of 1-(propan-2-ylidene)-1a,9b-dihydro-1H-cyclopropa[l]phenanthrene” Tetrahedron Lett. 2015, 56, 6751.
  • Goldstein, R. I.; Guo, R.; Hughes, C.; Maurer, D. P.; Newhouse, T. R.; Sisto, T. J.; Conry, R. R.; Price, S. L.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Concomitant Conformational Dimorphism in 1,2-Bis(9-anthryl)acetylene” CrystEngComm 2015, 17, 4877.
  • Hare, S. R.; Orman, M.; Dewan, F.; Dalchand, E.; Buzard, C.; Ahmed, S.; Tolentino, J. C.; Sethi, U.; Terlizzi, K.; Houferak, C.; Stein, A. M.; Stedronsky, A.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Tantillo, D. J.; Merrer, D. C. “Experimental and Computational Mechanistic Investigation of Chlorocarbene Additions to Bridgehead Carbene-anti-Bredt Systems: Noradamantylcarbene-Adamantene and Adamantylcarbene-Homoadamantene” J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80,  5049.
  • Thamattoor, D. M. “In Defense of Small: Some Personal Reflections on Teaching Chemistry at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution” Invited article in The Best Kind of College: An Insider’s Guide to America’s Small Liberal Arts Colleges; Susan J. McWilliams and John E. Seery Eds., SUNY Press; 2015, Chapter 2, pp 37-47.
  • Moore, K. A.; Vidaurri-Martinez, J. S.; Thamattoor, D. M. “The Benzylidenecarbene-Phenylacetylene Rearrangement: An Experimental and Computational Study” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 20037.
  • Anson, C. W.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Influence of Substituents on the Through-Space Shielding of Aromatic Rings” J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 1693.
  • Levasseur, J. L.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Syntheses and X-ray Crystal Structures of Cassiferaldehyde and Analogs” Synth. Commun., 2012, 42, 292.
  • Graves, K. S.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Rablen, P. R. “Experimental and theoretical study of the 2-alkoxyethylidene rearrangement” J. Org. Chem.2011, 76, 1584.
  • Thamattoor, D. M. “Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Greenhouse Gases since the International Geophysical Year: F. Sherwood Rowland and the Evolution of Earth Science” Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the Social and Intellectual Implications of the International Polar and Geophysical Years; Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology, Roger D. Launius, James R. Fleming, and David H. DeVorkin, Eds., Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2010.
  • Mahlokozera, T.; Goods, J. B.; Childs, A.M.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Crystal Structure of a Cyclotetramer from a Strained Cyclic Allene” Org. Lett. 2009,11, 5095.
  • Herrick, D. B.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Shevlin, P. B. “Reactions of atomic carbon with acyl chlorides” Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 6036.
  • Nguyen, J. M.; Thamattoor, D. M. “A simple synthesis of 1,1-dibromo-1a,9b-dihydrocyclopropa[l]phenanthrene” Synthesis, 2007, 2093.
  • Millard, J. T.; Katz, J. L.; Goda, J.; Frederick, E. D.; Pierce, S. E.; Speed, T. J.; Thamattoor, D. M. “DNA Interstrand Cross-Linking by a Mycotoxic Diepoxide.” Biochimie, 2004, 86, 419.
  • Presolski, S. I.; Zorba, A.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Tippmann, E. M.; Platz, M. S. “Search for Dichlorocarbene Ether Solvent Interactions” Tetrahedron Lett.2004, 45, 485. (Corrigendum: Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 3007.)
  • Speed, T. J.; McIntyre, J. P.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Wittig Reaction Using a Stabilized Phosphorus Ylid: An Efficient and Stereoselective Synthesis of Ethyl trans-Cinnamate” J. Chem. Educ. 2004, 81, 1355.
  • Speed, T. J.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Synthesis of Montiporynes A and B”Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 367.
  • Barasz, J. A.; Ghaffari, A. H.; Otte, D. A.; Thamattoor, D. M. “An Unusual, DDQ-Promoted Oxidative Rearrangement of 9,9-Disubstituted 1,4,5,8-Tetrahydro-4a,8a-methanonaphthalenes” Chem. Lett. 2002, 64.
  • Farlow, R.A.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Sunoj, R. B.; Hadad, C. M. “The Rearrangement Pathways of 2-Hydroxy-2-methylpropylidene: An Experimental and Computational Study” J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 3257.
  • Pageau, G. L.; Mabaera, R.; Kosuda, K. M.; Sebelius, T. A.; Ghaffari, A. H.; Kearns, K. A.; McIntyre, J. P.; Beachy, T. M.; Thamattoor, D. M. “Diastereoselective Synthesis of a Strawberry Flavoring Agent by Epoxidation of Ethyl trans-beta-Methylcinnamate” J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 96.
  • Thamattoor, D. M.; Snoonian, J. R.; Sulzbach, H. M.; Hadad, C. M. “Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Ring-Expansion in 1-Methylcyclopropylcarbene” J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 5886.
  • Person, A. L.; Thamattoor, D. M. “A Simple Synthesis of 1-Methylcyclobutene” Synth. Commun., 1999, 29, 2973.
  • Robert, M.; Snoonian, J. R.; Platz, M. S.; Wu, G.; Hong, H.; Thamattoor, D. M.; Jones, M., Jr. “A Laser Flash Photolyses Study of Dibromocarbene and Bromochlorocarbene” J. Phys. Chem A 1998, 102, 587.
  • Thamattoor, D. M.; Jones, M., Jr.; Pan, W.; Shevlin, P. B.“Cyclopropylmethylcarbene” Tetrahedron Lett. 1996, 37, 8333.