W. Billups

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Functionalization of Potassium Graphite
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 46, no. 24, pp. 4486–4488, 2007
  2. Fabrication of porous ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
    Biomaterials, vol. 28, no. 28, pp. 4078–4090, 2007
  3. Tuning the Mechanical Properties of SWNT/Nylon 6,10 Composites with Flexible Spacers at the Interface
    Nano Letters, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 1178–1185, 2007
  4. Statistically Accurate Length Measurements of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
    Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 2917–2921, 2007
  5. Heat Transfer Nanofluids Based on Carbon Nanotubes
    Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 234–236, 2007
  6. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 49, pp. 24812–24815, 2006
  7. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 35, pp. 11322–11323, 2006
  8. Functionalization density dependence of single-walled carbon nanotubes cytotoxicity in vitro
    Toxicology Letters, vol. 161, no. 2, pp. 135–142, 2006
  9. Biomacromolecules, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 441–445, 2006
  10. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1520–1524, 2006
  11. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 18, no. 20, pp. 4764–4767, 2006
  12. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 18, no. 25, pp. 5864–5868, 2006
  13. In situ Raman studies on lithiated single-wall carbon nanotubes in liquid ammonia
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 410, no. 4-6, pp. 467–470, 2005
  14. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 40, pp. 13941–13948, 2005
  15. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 10, pp. 4416–4418, 2005
  16. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 12, pp. 5403–5405, 2005
  17. Organic Letters, vol. 7, no. 19, pp. 4067–4069, 2005
  18. A Model for Nucleation and Growth of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes via the HiPco Process: A Catalyst Concentration Study
    Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 1035–1040, 2005
  19. Macroscopic, Neat, Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Fibers
    Science, vol. 305, no. 5689, pp. 1447–1450, 2004
  20. Macromolecules, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 154–160, 2004
  21. Nano Letters, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 1257–1260, 2004
  22. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 26, pp. 8794–8798, 2004
  23. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 30, pp. 9407–9412, 2004
  24. Gentle fragmentation of C by strong hydrogenation: a route to synthesizing new materials
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 400, no. 1-3, pp. 112–116, 2004
  25. Hydrogen storage in hydrofullerides
    Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, vol. 78, no. 7, pp. 995–1000, 2004
  26. Enhancement of the chemical resistance of nitrile rubber by direct fluorination
    Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 971–979, 2003
  27. ZnBr2-catalyzed chemical effects in poly(acrylonitrile-co-butadiene)
    Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 89, no. 5, pp. 1250–1257, 2003
  28. Formation, Isolation, and Spectroscopic Properties of Some Isomers of C60H38, C60H40, C60H42, and C60H44- Analysis of the Effect of the Different Shapes of Various Helium-Containing Hydrogenated Fullerenes on Their3He Chemical Shifts
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2003, no. 21, pp. 4140–4145, 2003
  29. Cocrystallization with Acetylene: Molecular Complexes with Acetone and Dimethyl Sulfoxide
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 42, no. 17, pp. 1961–1963, 2003
  30. Chemical Reviews, vol. 103, no. 4, pp. 1539–1602, 2003
  31. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 12, pp. 3617–3621, 2003
  32. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 107, no. 6, pp. 1360–1365, 2003
  33. Organic Letters, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 1471–1473, 2003
  34. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 67, no. 13, pp. 4436–4440, 2002
  35. Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 1087–1095, 2002
  36. Pathways for the thermally induced dehydrogenation of C60H2
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 360, no. 5-6, pp. 509–514, 2002
  37. The Synthesis and Characterization of Fullerene Hydrides
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2001, no. 22, p. 4167, 2001
  38. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 35, pp. 8482–8495, 2001
  39. Organic Letters, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 65–66, 2001
  40. Organometallics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 39–48, 2000
  41. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 104, no. 48, pp. 11265–11269, 2000
  42. Organometallics, vol. 18, no. 17, pp. 3551–3553, 1999
  43. Organic Letters, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 115–116, 1999
  44. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 50, pp. 10842–10845, 1999
  45. Synthesis of [2.2]paracyclophane annelated cycloproparenes
    Tetrahedron, vol. 55, no. 36, pp. 10893–10898, 1999
  46. Synthesis and characterization of 1-chloro-3-methylenecyclopropene
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1261–1264, 1999
  47. Synthesis and characterization of 1,4-dichlorospiropentadiene
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 40, no. 34, pp. 6157–6158, 1999
  48. 3He NMR spectra of highly reduced C60
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 175–178, 1997
  49. A new methylenecyclopropene synthesis and the isolation of a novel methylenecyclopropene dimer
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1115–1116, 1997
  50. Synthesis of a novel dicycloproparene
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 38, no. 26, pp. 4533–4534, 1997
  51. Reduction of C60 using anhydrous hydrazine
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 171–174, 1997
  52. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 62, no. 17, pp. 5771–5779, 1997
  53. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 764–770, 1996
  54. Synthesis of new molecular systems
    Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 275–280, 1996
  55. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 117, no. 4, pp. 1387–1392, 1995
  56. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 117, no. 36, pp. 9305–9308, 1995
  57. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 116, no. 14, pp. 6463–6463, 1994
  58. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 116, no. 19, pp. 8831–8832, 1994
  59. Reaction of cyclopropa[b]naphthalene with 3He@C60
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 35, no. 23, pp. 3869–3872, 1994
  60. Dimerization of cycloproparenes by silver ion
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 35, no. 26, pp. 4493–4496, 1994
  61. Synthesis of the bicyclopropenyls
    Tetrahedron, vol. 50, no. 36, pp. 10693–10700, 1994
  62. The Effect of Fusion of Angular Strained Rings on Benzene: Crystal Structures of 1,2-Dihydrocyclobuta[a]cyclopropa[c]-, 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydrodicyclobuta[a,c]-, 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydrodicyclobuta[a,c]cyclopropa[e]-, and 1,2,3,4,5,6-Hexahydrotricyclobuta[a,c,e]benzene
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 313–317, 1994
  63. Gas-Phase Synthesis of Reactive Molecules Using Adsorbed Reagents
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, vol. 33, no. 13, pp. 1332–1343, 1994
  64. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 59, no. 26, pp. 8125–8126, 1994
  65. Synthesis and structure of the unligated carbene of chromium
    Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1529–1531, 1993
  66. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 115, no. 2, pp. 743–746, 1993
  67. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 115, no. 5, pp. 2039–2041, 1993
  68. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 96, no. 12, pp. 4731–4733, 1992
  69. The thermal rearrangements of halocyclopropenes
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 33, no. 14, pp. 1825–1826, 1992
  70. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 11, pp. 4331–4332, 1991
  71. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 13, pp. 5084–5085, 1991
  72. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 21, pp. 7980–7984, 1991
  73. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 94, no. 24, pp. 8634–8636, 1990
  74. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 29, no. 22, pp. 4373–4376, 1990
  75. Bicyclo[n.1.0]alkenes
    Chemical Reviews, vol. 89, no. 5, pp. 1147–1159, 1989
  76. Bicycloprop-2-enyl (C6H6)
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 1711–1712, 1989
  77. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 205–206, 1988
  78. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 110, no. 24, pp. 7975–7980, 1988
  79. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1312–1314, 1988
  80. Organometallics, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 2230–2231, 1988
  81. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 109, no. 15, pp. 4508–4513, 1987
  82. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 109, no. 16, pp. 4775–4780, 1987
  83. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 25, no. 25, pp. 4530–4533, 1986
  84. Organometallics, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 1917–1918, 1986
  85. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 107, no. 5, pp. 1447–1448, 1985
  86. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 106, no. 2, pp. 440–441, 1984
  87. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 106, no. 12, pp. 3698–3699, 1984
  88. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 177–183, 1984
  89. Activation of hexafluoroethane by calcium atoms
    Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 165–167, 1984
  90. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 49, no. 18, pp. 3436–3437, 1984
  91. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 105, no. 12, pp. 3886–3893, 1983
  92. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 7, pp. 1326–1333, 1981
  93. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 23, pp. 4636–4641, 1980
  94. Palladium Catalyzed Allylation of Indole
    Synthetic Communications, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 147–154, 1980
  95. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 102, no. 10, pp. 3649–3650, 1980
  96. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 102, no. 24, pp. 7393–7394, 1980
  97. Activation of dimethyl ether with transition metal atoms
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 21, no. 40, pp. 3861–3864, 1980
  98. Activation of dimethyl ether with barium and strontium atoms
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 194, no. 1, pp. C22–C24, 1980
  99. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 44, no. 23, pp. 4218–4219, 1979
  100. Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 245–251, 1978
  101. Generation of bicyclo[4.1.0]heptatrienes. Carbene-carbene rearrangements in solution.
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 18, no. 26, pp. 2239–2242, 1977
  102. Synthesis of 3-chloro- and 3-bromobenzocyclopropene
    Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 571–572, 1977
  103. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 98, no. 24, pp. 7817–7818, 1976
  104. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 41, no. 23, pp. 3771–3772, 1976
  105. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 1702–1704, 1975
  106. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 1848–1849, 1975
  107. Synthesis and structure proof of a new ring system from the reaction of diironnonacarbonyl and naphtho[b]-cyclopropene
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 102, no. 3, pp. 345–351, 1975
  108. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 274–275, 1974
  109. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 96, no. 6, pp. 1979–1980, 1974
  110. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 96, no. 12, pp. 4026–4027, 1974
  111. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 96, no. 13, pp. 4307–4311, 1974
  112. Trimethylenemethane vs. diene coordination in the reaction of 2,2-dimethyl-allylidenecyclopropane with Fe2(CO)9
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. C55–C58, 1973
  113. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 95, no. 10, pp. 3438–3439, 1973
  114. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 95, no. 12, pp. 4099–4100, 1973
  115. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 95, no. 23, pp. 7878–7880, 1973
  116. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 95, no. 24, pp. 8096–8102, 1973
  117. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 94, no. 5, pp. 1770–1771, 1972
  118. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 37, no. 23, pp. 3676–3678, 1972
  119. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 438–440, 1971
  120. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 278–279, 1970
  121. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 3080–3082, 1970
  122. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 92, no. 12, pp. 3700–3703, 1970
  123. Halogen migration in the reaction of dichloroalkanes with aluminum chloride
    Tetrahedron, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 1095–1099, 1970
  124. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 3207–3208, 1969
  125. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 90, no. 5, pp. 1361–1362, 1968
  126. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 90, no. 17, pp. 4749–4751, 1968
  127. The Sodium Amide Catalyzed Rearrangement of Some Acetylenes in Ethylenediamine
    The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 2069–2073, 1966
  128. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 2885–2887, 1966
  129. The Configuration of Chloroacrylic Acids, Amides, Esters, and Nitriles by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
    The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 3141–3147, 1965