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Miami University
69. Pyridine catalysis of anhydride hydrolysis within carbodiimide-driven reaction networks
Renuka Baral, Jackson V. Gunn, and C. Scott Hartley*
ChemSystemsChem 2026, 8, e00042
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68. Molecular springs in dynamic covalent polymer networks
Ibrahim Oladayo Raji, Mary Eisenhart, Roshan Lama, Govinda Prasad Devkota, C. Scott Hartley, and Dominik Konkolewicz*
Macromolecules 2025, 58, 12346–12352
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Raw data ]
67. Distinct folding behavior of ortho-phenylenes and 2,3-pyrazinylenes
Yinhui Liao, Govinda Prasad Devkota, Vipul Batra, Jacob R. Franklin, Sean B. Ginn, Diamond D. E. Browner-Smith, David L. Tierney, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2025, 90, 16025–16031
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Preprint | Raw data ]
66. Quantifying the association of caffeine using NMR spectroscopy in the organic chemistry laboratory
Renuka Baral, Jackson V. Gunn, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Chem. Educ. 2025, 102, 4611–4615
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Preprint ]
65. Programmable hydrogels by combining persistent and transient dynamic bonds
Chamoni W. H. Rajawasam, Nirob K. Saha, Corvo Tran, Sophia M. Costantino, Michael Weeks, Kathleen McCoy, Jessica L. Sparks, C. Scott Hartley,* and Dominik Konkolewicz*
ChemRxiv
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64. Mechanisms of chiral induction to foldamer backbones
Govinda Prasad Devkota, Roshan Lama, and C. Scott Hartley*
Chem.—Eur. J. 2025, 31, e02433
[ Publication (OA) | NSF-PAR | Preprint | Raw data ]
63. Autonomous changes in polymer materials driven by chemical fuels
Chamoni W. H. Rajawasam, Dominik Konkolewicz,* and C. Scott Hartley*
ChemSystemsChem 2025, 7, e202400090
[ Publication (OA) | DOE-PAGES ]
62. Photoresponsive polymers for carbodiimide-fueled transient hydrogels
Ibrahim O. Raji, Torin C. Wilcox, C. Scott Hartley, and Dominik Konkolewicz*
Polym. Chem. 2025, 16, 947–953
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61. Controlling carbodiimide-driven reaction networks through the reversible formation of pyridine adducts
William S. Salvia, Georgia Mantel, Nirob K. Saha, Chamoni W. H. Rajawasam, Dominik Konkolewicz,* and C. Scott Hartley*
Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 12876–12879
[ Publication | DOE-PAGES | Preprint | Raw data ]
60. Transient covalent polymers through carbodiimide-driven assembly
Nirob K. Saha, William S. Salvia, Dominik Konkolewicz,* and C. Scott Hartley*
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202404933
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59. Carbodiimide-driven toughening of interpenetrated polymer networks
Chamoni W. H. Rajawasam, Corvo Tran, Jessica L. Sparks, William H. Krueger, C. Scott Hartley,* and Dominik Konkolewicz*
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202400843
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58. Observing the transient assembly and disassembly of carboxylic anhydrides in the organic chemistry laboratory
Sumalatha Peddi, Jacob R. Franklin, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Chem. Educ. 2024, 101, 145–150
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Preprint ]
57. PET-RAFT polymerization of star polymers with folded ortho-phenylene cores
Kate G. E. Bradford, Viraj C. Kirinda, Emma A. Gordon, C. Scott Hartley,* and Dominik Konkolewicz*
Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2023, 44, 2300094
[ Publication (OA) | NSF-PAR | Raw data ]
56. Chemically fueled reinforcement of polymer hydrogels
Chamoni W. H. Rajawasam, Corvo Tran, Michael Weeks, Kathleen S. McCoy, Robert Ross-Shannon, Obed J. Dodo, Jessica L. Sparks, C. Scott Hartley,* and Dominik Konkolewicz*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 5553–5560
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55. Engineering chiral induction in centrally functionalized ortho-phenylenes
Sumalatha Peddi, Juliana M. Livieri, Gopi Nath Vemuri, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 788–795
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Preprint | Raw data ]
54. Conformational control of ortho-phenylenes by terminal amides
Govinda Prasad Devkota, William P. Carson, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 1331–1338
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Preprint | Raw data ]
53. Carbodiimide-induced formation of transient polyether cages
Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, Isuru M. Jayalath, Renuka Baral, and C. Scott Hartley*
ChemSystemsChem 2022, 4, e202200016
[ Publication (OA) | DOE-PAGES | Preprint | Raw data ]
52. Aromatic foldamers as molecular springs in network polymers
K. Andrew Miller, Obed J. Dodo, Govinda Prasad Devkota, Viraj C. Kirinda, Kate G. E. Bradford, Jessica Sparks, C. Scott Hartley,* and Dominik Konkolewicz*
Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 5590–5593
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Raw data ]
51. Guest-driven control of folding in a crown-ether-functionalized ortho-phenylene
Sumalatha Peddi, Molly C. Bookout, Gopi Nath Vemuri, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 3686–3690
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Preprint | Raw data ]
50. Tailoring lifetimes and properties of carbodiimide-fueled covalently crosslinked polymer networks
Obed Dodo, Leilah Petit, Chamoni Rajawasam, C. Scott Hartley,* and Dominik Konkolewicz*
Macromolecules 2021, 54, 9860–9867
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49. Fluorine labeling of ortho-phenylenes to facilitate conformational analysis
Viraj C. Kirinda, Gopi Nath Vemuri, Nicholas G. Kress, Kaitlyn M. Flynn, Nuwanthika Dilrukshi Kumarage, Briana R. Schrage, David L. Tierney, Christopher J. Ziegler, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 15085–15095
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Preprint | Raw data ]
48. Substituent effects on transient, carbodiimide-fueled geometry changes in diphenic acids
Isuru M. Jayalath, Madelyn M. Gerken, Georgia Mantel, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 12024–12033
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47. Folding-controlled assembly of ortho-phenylene-based macrocycles
Viraj C. Kirinda and C. Scott Hartley*
Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 6992–7002
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Preprint | Raw data ]
46. The transient covalent bond in abiotic nonequilibrium systems
Lasith S. Kariyawasam, Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, and C. Scott Hartley*
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 12648–12658
[ Publication | DOE-PAGES ]
45. Chemically fueled transient geometry changes in diphenic acids
Isuru M. Jayalath, Hehe Wang, Georgia Mantel, Lasith S. Kariyawasam, and C. Scott Hartley*
Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 7567–7571
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44. ortho-Phenylene-based macrocyclic hydrocarbons assembled using olefin metathesis
Viraj C. Kirinda, Briana R. Schrage, Christopher J. Ziegler, and C. Scott Hartley*
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 5620–5625
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Preprint | Raw data ]
43. Dissipative assembly of macrocycles comprising multiple transient bonds
Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, Joshua L. Atkinson, and C. Scott Hartley*
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 13807–13813
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Selected by the editors at a “Hot Paper”.
42. Structure–property effects in the generation of transient aqueous benzoic acid anhydrides by carbodiimide fuels
Lasith S. Kariyawasam, Julie C. Kron, Run Jiang, André J. Sommer, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 682–690
[ Publication | DOE-PAGES | Preprint | Raw data ]
41. Macrocycles of higher ortho-phenylenes: assembly and folding
Zacharias J. Kinney, Viraj C. Kirinda, and C. Scott Hartley*
Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 9057–9068
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40. Understanding thermodynamic control in covalent self-assembly: a mixed synthetic–computational experiment for the undergraduate organic-chemistry laboratory
Adam G. L. Schafer, Ellen J. Yezierski, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Chem. Educ. 2019, 96, 1230–1235
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39. Chemically fueled covalent crosslinking of polymer materials
Borui Zhang, Isuru M. Jayalath, Jun Ke, Jessica L. Sparks, C. Scott Hartley,* and Dominik Konkolewicz*
Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 2086–2089
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38. Twist sense control in terminally functionalized ortho-phenylenes
Gopi Nath Vemuri, Rathiesh R. Pandian, Brian J. Spinello, Erika B. Stopler, Zacharias J. Kinney, and C. Scott Hartley*
Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 8260–8270
[ Publication | NSF-PAR | Raw data ]
37. Linker-directed assembly of twisted ortho-phenylene-based macrocycles
Zacharias J. Kinney and C. Scott Hartley*
Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 3327–3331
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36. Dissipative assembly of aqueous carboxylic acid anhydrides fueled by carbodiimides
Lasith S. Kariyawasam and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 11949–11955
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35. Twisted macrocycles with folded ortho-phenylene subunits
Zacharias J. Kinney and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 4821–4827
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34. Solvent effects on the folding of ortho-phenylene oligomers
Gopi Nath Vemuri, Meng Chu, Han Dong, Brian J. Spinello, and C. Scott Hartley*
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2017, 15, 845–851
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33. Two- and three-tiered stacked architectures by covalent assembly
Fengfeng Ren, Kody J. Day, and C. Scott Hartley*
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 8620–8623
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Selected by the editors at a “Hot Paper”.
32. Folding of ortho-phenylenes
C. Scott Hartley*
Acc. Chem. Res. 2016, 49, 646–654
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31. Smectic-A and hexatic-B liquid crystal phases of sanidic alkyl-substituted dibenzo[fg,op]naphthacenes
Paul J. Repasky, Deña M. Agra-Kooijman, Satyendra Kumar,* and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Phys. Chem. B 2016, 120, 2829–2837
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30. Visualizing molecular chirality in the organic chemistry laboratory using cholesteric liquid crystals
Maia Popova, Stacey Lowery Bretz, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Chem. Educ. 2016, 93, 1096–1099
[ Publication (OA) | NSF-PAR ]
29. Tetrabenzanthanthrenes by mitigation of rearrangements in the planarization of ortho-phenylene hexamers
Jian He, Sanyo Mathew, Zacharias J. Kinney, Rachel M. Warrell, James S. Molina, and C. Scott Hartley*
Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 7245–7248
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28. Enhanced helical folding of ortho-phenylenes through the control of aromatic stacking interactions
Sanyo Mathew, Laura A. Crandall, Christopher J. Ziegler, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 16666–16675
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Featured as a JACS Spotlight.
27. Solution-phase dimerization of an oblong shape-persistent macrocycle
Meng Chu, Ashley N. Scioneaux, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 9009–9017
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26. Intramolecular charge transfer in donor-bridge- acceptor compounds with paired linearly conjugated or cross-conjugated pathways
Nicole M. Dickson-Karn,* Courtney M. Olson, Wade C. W. Leu, and C. Scott Hartley
J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2014, 27, 661–669
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25. Graphene synthesis: nanoribbons from the bottom-up (News & Views)
C. Scott Hartley*
Nat. Chem. 2014, 6, 91–92
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24. Board-like dibenzo[fg,op]naphthacenes: synthesis, characterization, self-assembly, and liquid crystallinity
Jian He, Dena M. Agra-Kooijman, Gautam Singh, Chen Wang, Cherrelle Dugger, Jianbo Zeng, Ling Zang, Satyendra Kumar, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Mater. Chem. C 2013, 15, 6714–6722
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23. A push–pull macrocycle with both linearly conjugated and cross-conjugated bridges
Wade C. W. Leu and C. Scott Hartley*
Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 3762–3765
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22. The role of arene–arene interactions in the folding of ortho-phenylenes
Sanyo M. Mathew, James T. Engle, Christopher J. Ziegler, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 6714–6722
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Please note a small correction published to the SI of this paper.
21. opp-Dibenzoporphyrins as a light-harvester for dye-sensitized solar cells
Rohit Deshpande, Bo Wang, Lin Dai, Lin Jiang, C. Scott Hartley, Shouzhong Zou, Hong Wang,* and Lei Kerr*
Chem. Asian. J. 2012, 11, 2662–2669
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20. Water-soluble ionic benzoporphyrins
Lin Jiang, Ross A. Zaenglein, James T. Engle, Chris Mittal, C. Scott Hartley, Christopher J. Ziegler, and Hong Wang*
Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 6927–6929
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19. ortho-Phenylene oligomers with terminal push–pull subsitution
Jian He, Sanyo M. Mathew, Sarah D. Cornett, Stephan C. Grundy, and C. Scott Hartley*
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 3398–3405
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18. Push–pull macrocycles: donor–acceptor compounds with paired linearly conjugated or cross-conjugated pathways
Wade C. W. Leu, Amanda E. Fritz, Katherine M. Digianantonio, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 2285–2298
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17. Excited-state behavior of ortho-phenylenes
C. Scott Hartley*
J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 9188–9191
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16. Parent o-phenylene oligomers: synthesis, conformational behavior, and characterization
Sanyo M. Mathew and C. Scott Hartley*
Macromolecules 2011, 44, 8425–8432
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15. Synthesis and characterization of self-assembled liquid crystals: p-alkoxybenzoic acids
Jana Jensen, Stephan C. Grundy, Stacey Lowery Bretz, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Chem. Educ. 2011, 88, 1133–1136
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14. Triphenylene-fused porphyrins
Lin Jiang, James T. Engle, Laura Sirk, C. Scott Hartley, Christopher J. Ziegler, and Hong Wang*
Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 3020–3023
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13. Conformational analysis of o-phenylenes: helical oligomers with frayed ends
C. Scott Hartley* and Jian He
J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 8627–8636
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12. ortho-Phenylenes: unusual conjugated oligomers with a surprisingly long effective conjugation length
Jian He, Jason L. Crase, Shriya H. Wadumethrige, Khushabu Thakur, Lin Dai, Shouzhong Zou, Rajendra Rathore, and C. Scott Hartley*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13848–13857
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Postdoctoral Work at the University of Illinois
11. Covalent ladder formation becomes kinetically trapped beyond four rungs
Erin L. Elliott, C. Scott Hartley, and Jeffrey S. Moore*
Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 5028–5030
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10. Programmed dynamic covalent assembly of unsymmetrical macrocycles
C. Scott Hartley and Jeffrey S. Moore*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 11682–11683
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9. Covalent assembly of molecular ladders
C. Scott Hartley, Erin L. Elliott, Jeffrey S. Moore*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 4512–4513
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Graduate school at Queen's University
8. Formation of smectic phases in binary liquid crystal mixtures with a huge length ratio
Nadia Kapernaum,* Friederike Knecht, C. Scott Hartley, Jeffrey C. Roberts, Robert P. Lemieux, and Frank Giesselmann
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1118–1125
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7. Systematic variation of length ratio and the formation of smectic A and smectic C phases
Nadia Kapernaum, C. Scott Hartley, Jeffrey C. Roberts, Florian Schoerg, Daniel Krueerke, Robert P. Lemieux, and Frank Giesselmann*
ChemPhysChem 2010, 11, 2099–2107
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6. Molecular length distribution and the formation of smectic phases
Nadia Kapernaum, C. Scott Hartley, Jeffrey C. Roberts, Robert P. Lemieux, and Frank Giesselmann*
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, no. 65
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5. Electroclinic effect in chiral SmA* liquid crystals induced by atropisomeric biphenyl dopants: amplification of the electroclinic coefficient using achiral additives
C. Scott Hartley, Nadia Kapernaum, Jeffrey C. Roberts, Frank Giesselmann, and Robert P. Lemieux*
J. Mater. Chem. 2006, 16, 2329–2337
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4. Ferroelectric liquid crystals induced by atropisomeric biphenyl dopants: correlation between the sign of induced polarization and the absolute configuration
C. Scott Hartley, Ruiyao Wang, and Robert P. Lemieux*
Chem. Mater. 2004, 16, 5297–5303
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3. Ferroelectric liquid crystals induced by atropisomeric biphenyl dopants: the effect of chiral perturbations on achiral dopants
C. Scott Hartley and Robert P. Lemieux*
Liq. Cryst. 2004, 31, 1101–1108
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2. Detection of chiral perturbations in ferroelectric liquid crystals induced by an atropisomeric biphenyl dopant
C. Scott Hartley, Carmen Lazar, Michael D. Wand, and Robert P. Lemieux*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 13513–13518
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1. Ferroelectric liquid crystals induced by atropisomeric biphenyl dopants: dependence of the polarization power on the nature of the symmetry-breaking groups
Despina Vizitiu, Carmen Lazar, Joshua P. Radke, C. Scott Hartley, Matthew A. Glaser, and Robert P. Lemieux*
Chem. Mater. 2001, 13, 1692–1699
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