Education

8/90-5/94 Simon's Rock College of Bard, Chemistry BA 5/94
Great Barrington, MA

9/94-6/99 Dartmouth College, Advisor: David M. Lemal, Chemistry PhD 6/99
Hanover, NH

8/99-8/01 University of Colorado, Advisor: Josef Michl, Post-doctoral Research Assistant

Publications

Gunst, P.; Smith J.R. "High Curvature Molecular Structure" Proceedings of The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2006, University of North Carolina, Asheville, April 6-8, 2006.

Peter F. H. Schwab, Joshua R. Smith, and Josef Michl “Synthesis and Properties of Molecular Rods. 2. Zig-Zag Rods” Chemical Reviews 2005, 105, 1197-1280.

William F. Wood, Joshua R. Smith, Kjirsten Wayman, David L. Largent “Indole and 3-chloroindole: The source of the disagreeable odor of Hygrophorus paupertinus” Mycologia 2003, 95, 807-808.

Clark, I.T.; Smith J.R. "1,2-Dehydro-benzene, -cyclopentadienyl, and -cyclobutadiene Metal Complexes." Proceedings of The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2002, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, April 25-27, 2002.

Smith, J.R.; Lemal, D.M “Synthetic Approaches to a Fluorinated Tetrahedrane” J. Fluorine Chem. 2000, 102, 323.

Smith, J.R.; Lemal, D.M “Highly Fluorinated Sulfonium Enolates” J. Fluorine Chem. 1999, 97, 145.

Zhang, Y.; Smith, J.R.; Lemal, D.M. “Octafluorobicyclo[2.2.0]hex-1(4)-ene: A Greatly Strained Alkene with Novel Reactivity” J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 1996, 39, 9454.

Sara Codding, Joshua R. Smith "Diferrocenyl Fumarate: A New Laboratory Experiment for Organic Chemistry" 17th Annual Northern California American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mills College, Oakland, CA. April 30, 2005.

Jonathan Segev, Joshua R. Smith "Progress in the Synthesis of
(o-Benzyne)tricarbonylchromium(0)" 17th Annual Northern California American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mills College, Oakland, CA. April 30, 2005.

Henrik Ottosson, Niclas Sandström, Ahmed M. El-Nahas, Joshua R. Smith “Rigid Molecular wires from 1,3- and 1,4-disila/germa/stannabicyclo[k.l.m]alkane monomers (l, m, n = 1 or 2): Interesting targets for molecular electronics.” Molecular-Scale Electronics VII, Bahia Resort Hotel San Diego, CA. January 23–26, 2005.

Matthew Lincoln, Joshua R. Smith "Cyclobutadienetricarbonyliron(0) from Maleic Anhydride" 16th Annual Northern California American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Symposium, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara. May 8, 2004.

Lincoln, M.; Smith, J.R. "Alternate pathways to (cyclobutadiene)tricarbonyliron(0)." 15th Annual Northern California ACS Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of San Francisco, May 3, 2003.

Giraldes, J.; Smith J.R. "A synthetic study towards h⁶-benzynemetal complexes." 15th Annual Northern California ACS Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of San Francisco, May 3rd, 2003.

Smith, J.R.; Brotin, T.; Pecka, J.; Miller, J. R.; Kirby, J. P.; Reisinger, A.; Michl, J., “Molecular electronics: Synthesis of a gate-throttle-wire module and its electron transport properties.” Pacifichem, Honolulu, HI, December, 2000, ORGN 1818.

Smith, J.R.; Lemal, D.M. “Synthetic Approaches to a Fluorinated Tetrahedrane” 15th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, 1999, Poster P02.

Smith, J.R.; Junk, C.P.; Zhang, Y.; Lemal, D.M. “Novel Synthesis and Chemistry of a Highly Strained Perfluoroalkene and a Derived [2.2.2]Propellane” 14th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, 1997, Poster P06.

Smith, J.R.; Zhang, Y.; Junk, C.P.; Lemal, D.M. “Novel Synthesis and Chemistry of a [2.2.2]Propellane” Humphries Symposium, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October, 1996, Poster 2.

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